Category:SEC Filings
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires a public company in the United States to file financial statements regularly so that they can be made available to the public. Investors and financial professionals rely on these filings for information about companies they are evaluating for investment purposes.
[edit] Popular Forms
- Form 10K and 20F - Annual report filed by domestic and foreign companies
- Forms 3 & 4 - Insider transactions
- Schedule 13D & 13G - Majority interest filing
- Form S-1 - Registration of securities
- Form 8K - Material event form
- Form 144 - Proposed sale of securities
[edit] Form Additions
- SB - Small Business Filing (ie. Form 10K/SB)
- A - Ammendment to a Previous Filing (ie. Schedule 13D/A)
[edit] Finding Forms
All forms are filed with the SEC, and can be found in the SEC's EDGAR database. Filing e-mail alerts and feeds are also available for free at SECFilings.com. There are also several other portals that specialize in sorting information found in individual forms.