Amazon is the largest business-to-consumer e-commerce company in the world.

It makes money by displaying ads to users while they browse through feeds of photos and videos.

Facebook owns two of the most engaging and largest social media apps in the world - its namesake, Facebook, and Instagram - as well as two of the biggest messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger.

The original four FANG stocks were all internet-based companies, but the later inclusion of Apple - primarily a consumer hardware manufacturer - made FAANG a broader group of technology stocks. Over the past decade, the FAANG stocks have grown faster than the overall S&P 500 or the more technology-focused NASDAQ. In 2017, investors started including Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL) in the group, turning the acronym into FAANG. Originally the acronym was FANG for Facebook ( NASDAQ:FB), Amazon ( NASDAQ:AMZN), Netflix ( NASDAQ:NFLX), and Alphabet ( NASDAQ:GOOG) ( NASDAQ:GOOGL) (formerly Google).

FAANG is an acronym used to describe some of the most prominent companies in the tech sector.

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