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EDGAR, the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The database is freely available to the public via or [ftp://ftp.sec.gov/edgar/ FTP], typically posting in excess of 3,000 filings per day.

Not all SEC filing
SEC filing

An SEC filing is a financial statement or other formal document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . Public company and certain insiders are required to make regular SEC filings....
s by public companies are available on EDGAR.






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EDGAR, the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The database is freely available to the public via or [ftp://ftp.sec.gov/edgar/ FTP], typically posting in excess of 3,000 filings per day.

Not all SEC filing
SEC filing

An SEC filing is a financial statement or other formal document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . Public company and certain insiders are required to make regular SEC filings....
s by public companies are available on EDGAR. Companies were phased in to EDGAR filing over a three-year period, ending 6 May 1996. As of that date, all public domestic companies were required to make their filings on EDGAR, except for filings made in paper because of a hardship exemption. Third-party filings with respect to these companies, such as tender offer
Tender offer

Tender offer is a corporate finance term denoting a type of takeover bid. The tender offer is a public, open offer by an acquirer to all shareholders of a public company corporation to tender their shares for sale at a specified price during a specified time, subject to the tendering of a minimum and maximum number of shares....
s and Schedule 13D
Schedule 13d

Schedule 13D is an SEC filing that must be submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission within 10 days, by anyone who acquires beneficial ownership of 5% or more of the outstanding common stock in a public company....
 filings, are also filed on EDGAR.

The vast majority of documents are now filed electronically. As of 4 November 2002, the SEC required all foreign companies and foreign governments to file their documents on EDGAR. Prior to that time, electronic filing by foreign companies also was voluntary.

Actual annual report
Annual report

An Annual report is a comprehensive report on a Company activities throughtout the preceeding year. Annual reports are intended to give shareholder and other interested persons information about the comapny's activities and financial performance....
s to shareholders (except in the case of mutual fund
Mutual fund

A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, Bond , short-term money market instruments, and/or other security ....
 companies) need not be submitted on EDGAR, although some companies do so voluntarily. However, the annual report on Form 10-K
Form 10-K

A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , that gives a comprehensive summary of a public company's performance....
 or Form 10-KSB, which contains much of the same information, is required to be filed on EDGAR.

See also

  • Central Index Key
    Central Index Key

    A Central Index Key or CIK number is a number given to an individual or company by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The number is used to identify the filings of a company, person, or entity in several online databases, including EDGAR....
  • Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
    Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

    The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency is a Netherlands research institute that advises the Dutch government on environmental policy and regional planning issues....
    's
  • SEDAR
    SEDAR

    The System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval is a mandatory document filing and retrieval system for Canadian public companies. Similar to EDGAR, SEDAR is operated by the Canadian Securities Administrators, a coordinating body comprising the 13 Canadian provincial and territorial securities commissions....
    , Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    's equivalent to EDGAR
  • Electronic Municipal Market Access
    Electronic Municipal Market Access

    The Electronic Municipal Market Access system, launched by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in March 2008 as a pilot system, currently provides free on-line access to , of outstanding bonds, and , together with and ....
     system (EMMA), providing disclosure information for the municipal securities market


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