Finance

Company Profiles are sources of comprehensive information about a company's overall operations. These resources will often provide details about a company's executive leadership, board, investors, supply chain, financials, and more.

Company Financials are easily located in official documents from the Securities Exchange Commission for U.S. publicly-traded companies. There is generally much more information available about publicly traded companies than those which are privately held.

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Most comprehensive source of public company information. Search by company name or ticker symbol. Includes stock, bond, mutual fund, earnings, and dividends reports.

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Provides profiles for public and private companies. Search by ticker symbol or company name. Mergent Market Atlas This link opens in a new window

Comprehensive profiles for publicly traded companies including financial data, sustainability and ESG information, SEC and annual filings, and analyst reports. Mergent Market Atlas will replace Mergent Online in 2025.

Also includes corporate information covering over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading.

Using SEC Filings in Company Research

Public companies in the US are required to file annual, quarterly, and current reports based on SEC regulations. Annual and quarterly reports include financial information for the period covered by the report. Item 1 of annual reports includes risk factors that inform overall macroenvironment analyses.

Form Type Description
10-K This is a company's annual report. It provides audited annual financial statements, a discussion of material risk factors for the company and its business, and a management’s discussion and analysis of the company’s results of operations for the prior fiscal year.
10-Q These are quarterly reports. A 10-Q includes unaudited quarterly financial statements, updates regarding material risks that the company faces, and management’s discussion and analysis of the company’s results of operations for the prior fiscal quarter.
8-K Current reports which disclose material events or information that the company chooses or is required to make public prior to its next scheduled quarterly or annual report.