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The financial-reports scope contains financial reports from public companies, dating back to 1994, chunked and indexed into a searchable set of records for retrieval-ready results. It works with Search, Answer, and Monitor. Results can be narrowed by publish date.

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Includes

  • Annual and quarterly reports — 10-K, 10-K/A, NT 10-K, 10-Q, 10-Q/A, 20-F (foreign private issuers)
  • Current reports — 8-K, 6-K (foreign private issuers)
  • Registration statements — S-1, S-1/A, S-3, S-4, S-4/A (mergers and business combinations), S-8 (employee benefit plans)
  • Prospectus supplements — 424B3, 424B5
  • Proxy statements — DEF 14A, PRE 14A, DEFM14A, PREM14A (merger proxies)
  • Beneficial ownership filings — SC 13D/A, SC 13G, Form 3, Form 4, Form 5
  • Institutional holdings reports — 13F-HR, 13F-NT
  • Free writing prospectuses — FWP
  • Asset-backed securitizer reports — ABS-15G
  • Fund reports — N-CSR, N-Q

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Excludes

  • Financial reports filed with regulators other than the SEC: international securities regulators (for example the UK’s Companies House, Canada’s SEDAR, Japan’s EDINET) and US state-level agencies. A foreign company’s own SEC filings, such as a 20-F or 6-K, are included; filings it made with its home regulator are not.

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Structure

Each result’s content is a chunk of a financial report, not the whole document. The index applies custom chunking on top of the raw reports (18.7M reports into over 350 million indexed records), unlike scopes such as companies or wikipedia where one result is one whole document. Chunking splits well below the Item level. A long section like a 10-K’s Item 1A Risk Factors spans many chunks, each covering one sub-topic: an Apple 10-K’s Item 1A alone returns separate chunks for “Macroeconomic and Industry Risks” and “Legal and Regulatory Compliance Risks”, among others. The {Item / section} described below marks which part of the document a chunk falls in; it does not mark a chunk boundary. Every chunk’s content starts with a pipe-delimited header line, then the chunked report text:
For example:
The {Item / section} and period segments are only present on some reports (for example, a 10-Q’s Risk Factors item includes both; an S-4/A amendment includes neither). Some chunks carry the item outside that header line instead, as a **Section Context:** {value} line at the start of the chunked text. This can appear in place of the pipe field, or alongside it to mark a more specific sub-heading nested under the Item the header names:
When parsing for section, check both the pipe header and a leading **Section Context:** line: neither is guaranteed on its own. Alongside content, each result also carries:
  • url — the report’s URL on SEC EDGAR.
  • published_date — the date the report was filed, matching the filed date in the header line above.

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Sample response

Search results with the financial-reports scope in JSON format look like this:

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Freshness

The financial-reports scope is updated daily.