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If you fully commit to IB data forever, then maybe you can indeed think of all the names as random strings. But I am not convinced that IB's classification data is truly equivalent to GICS.

Does anyone have much experience with IB's industry classifications? Per IB help desk, their classification is based on GICS. https://www.msci.com/gics But IB seems to have mapped GICS names to their own. Example (for JCI, Johnson Control). GICS sector = Industrials, IB's name = Industrial...