SPINNERETTE 12.04.23

2 Companies MTCH +1.28

LMT + UBER

TUMBLER

While researching the origins of the word TUMBLER, I learned that early drinking glasses were made with a pointed end or rounded base and consequently the glasses often tumbled over. The name obviously stuck and is used today to reference many forms of drinkware. Other meanings include, Acrobats that perform tumbling, dryers, gun locks which have a tumbling mechanism as do safes and apparently domestic pigeons sometimes tumble in flight. For my visual rendition of TUMBLER, I selected the drinkware choice, but I was torn with the impulse to use the early Dice Tumblers to MTCH the anagram with Gambling. After all, the Stock Market is a Gamble.

LMT is Lockheed Martin a global aerospace, arms, security and technology corporation trading on the NYSE. Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta merged in 1995 to form the company today and is headquartered in North Bethesda, MD. Half of their annual sales are garnered by the U.S. Department of Defense. They also have contracts with the U.S. Department of Energy and the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Revenue is currently listed at almost US$66 BILLION and employ 116,000.

Traded Today @ $450.69

UBER is Uber formally known as Uber Technologies, Inc. The company wears several hats as a taxi, food delivery and a freight transport service which began in 2009 by founders Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick in San Francisco, CA. They are an international company and went public in 2019 trading on the NYSE.

Revenue is almost listed at US$32 BILLION and the company employs approx. 33,000.

Traded Today @ $58.63

A DADDY LONGLEGS: This is the 2nd time UBER has been selected as a Spinnerette MTCH-UP.