> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.seltz.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Financial reports

> Understanding the financial reports scope

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](/search/guides/basic-search),
[Answer](/answer/guides/basic-answer), and [Monitor](/monitor/quickstart). Results can be narrowed by
[publish date](/search/filter-by-date).

## 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`

## 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.

## 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`](/data/companies) or [`wikipedia`](/data/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:

```
{Issuer name} | {Form type} [| {Item / section}] | filed {YYYY-MM-DD} [| period {YYYY-MM-DD}]
```

For example:

```
TESLA MOTORS INC | S-4/A | filed 2016-09-29

Tesla, Inc. | 10-Q | ITEM 1A — RISK FACTORS | filed 2025-10-23 | period 2025-09-30
```

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:

```
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC | 10-K | filed 2025-10-03 | period 2025-08-28

**Section Context:** ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

**Risks Related to Intellectual Property and Litigation**
```

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`](/search/filter-by-date) — the date the report was
  filed, matching the `filed` date in the header line above.

## Sample response

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

```json theme={null}
{
  "documents": [
    {
      "content": "Tesla, Inc. | 424B3 | filed 2019-05-13\n\n**Tesla’s Reasons for the Offer and the Merger**\n\nIn reaching its decision to approve the merger agreement, the offer, the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement, Tesla’s board of directors consulted with Tesla’s management, as well as Tesla’s legal advisors, and considered a number of factors, including the following factors which it viewed as supporting its decision to approve the merger agreement, the offer, the merger and the other transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (not in any relative order of importance):\n\n... (4,855 characters total)",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312519145433/0001193125-19-145433.txt",
      "published_date": "2019-05-13T00:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "content": "Tesla, Inc. | 10-Q | ITEM 1A — RISK FACTORS | filed 2025-10-23 | period 2025-09-30\n\n**ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS**\n\nOur operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A, *Risk Factors* in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, and Part II, Item 1A, *Risk Factors* in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2025 and June 30, 2025, which could adversely affect our business, financial conditions and future results. Other than the risk factors set forth below, there have been no material changes from the risk factors discussed in our Annual and Quarterly Reports.",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828025045968/0001628280-25-045968.txt",
      "published_date": "2025-10-23T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Freshness

The `financial-reports` scope is updated daily.