SEC EDGAR Filing Search

Directly from SEC EDGAR's own public data APIs (data.sec.gov), the same source SEC.gov's own search uses. Swoopr proxies the request server-side because EDGAR's APIs don't support direct browser requests, but the data and links are unmodified.

That's the most recent 40 from EDGAR's own recent-filings list, enough to cover the last several quarters for most companies. For a company's complete filing history, follow any result link to sec.gov and use EDGAR's own company page.

Yes. Every public company has a unique 10-digit Central Index Key assigned by the SEC; typing digits searches by CIK directly, while typing letters searches company name and ticker.

Because the identifier is assigned to a filer, not to a brand. A parent company, its financing subsidiaries and any entities that file separately each get their own number, and a company that has reorganized may have an old identifier holding historical filings alongside a newer one. Searching by name can therefore return several related entities. Confirming which identifier the operating company files under, before working through a filing history, avoids reading the wrong entity's documents.

The suffix marks an amendment. A 10-K is the original annual report; a 10-K/A amends it, sometimes to add a section that was omitted at first, sometimes to correct or restate previously reported figures. The amendment does not always repeat the whole document, so reading it alone can miss context, and reading only the original can miss a correction. Where both exist, the pair has to be read together to know what the company's current position actually is.

The annual report gives the fullest description of the business, its segments and its risk factors. The most recent quarterly report shows what has changed since. The proxy statement covers compensation, ownership and governance. Current reports capture material events between periodic filings, including results announcements and executive changes. Beyond those four, most other form types answer a specific question rather than contributing to a general understanding.

Yes, for those registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Foreign private issuers file under different form types than domestic companies: an annual report on Form 20-F rather than a 10-K, and current reports on Form 6-K rather than 8-K. The content and the reporting frequency differ accordingly, so a search that filters only for domestic form types will return nothing for such a company even though its filings are present.

Electronic submissions are generally available in the public index shortly after acceptance, which is why filings made during market hours can be read the same day. Submissions accepted after the daily cutoff are dated the next business day, which is a common source of confusion when a filing date appears to lag an announcement. The public data source this search reads is the same one the official site uses, so there is no additional delay introduced here.

A filing is a submission with one or more documents, and not all of them are narrative. Some are structured data exhibits, some are cover pages for material filed elsewhere, and older records from before electronic filing was fully phased in can be sparse or absent. A result with nothing readable attached is still a real record of a submission; it just means the substance sits in an exhibit or in another filing referenced by it.