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Cite Filings finds US public companies and shows their SEC filings in the original documents. This page explains each part of the site and where its data comes from.

Finding a company #

Type a company name, ticker or CIK into the search box on the home page. Up to five matches appear as you type. Press Enter to see every match, or Esc to close the list.

Search covers every company in the SEC's ticker list, about 8,000 companies. Exact tickers come first, then companies on an exchange before those traded over the counter. Any company that files with the SEC still has a page at /companies/ followed by its ticker or CIK.

Example /companies/TSLA Tesla's page, by ticker.

Example /companies/1318605 The same page, by CIK.

Company pages #

The header holds what the SEC knows about the company: tickers, exchange, industry (SIC), fiscal year end and state of incorporation, then the entity type, EIN, phone, website, business address, former names and, when there's more than one, each security it trades. Below are two tabs.

Filings

Every filing the company has made, newest first, 20 per page; filings from the previous day are added each morning. Flagged filings have a coloured bar at the start of the row (see Filing cards), and routine paperwork is dimmed until you point at it.

Pick a category on the left, type a form type such as 10-K, or choose the year a filing was filed in. The year is the filing date, not the fiscal year: many companies file their annual report early in the following year. With a year chosen, the counts beside each category cover that year only.

Insiders

Officers', directors' and 10% owners' Form 4 trades, with open-market buying and selling over the last 90 days: shares bought or sold at a price (codes P and S), not grants, option exercises or tax withholding. The larger side is filled in its colour, with the net and how much was sold under a Rule 10b5-1 plan.

Pace of trading charts each day, buys above the line and sales below it. Who's trading ranks the five people who traded the most, with the share of their stake each sold; choose one to see only their trades. The table lists every line with its value.

The tab, category, filter, year, page and person are part of the address, so a filtered view can be shared as a link.

Example /companies/TSLA?category=financials&year=2025 Tesla's financial reports filed in 2025.

Example /companies/TSLA?view=insiders&only=sells Tesla's insider sales.

Filing categories

Each category groups related form types. Amendments count with their original form, so 4/A appears under Insider Trading with 4, and 424B covers every 424B prospectus. Forms outside every category appear under Others.

Reading a filing #

Opening a filing shows its main document on the right, scrolled past the cover page and table of contents to the first section, such as Item 1 of a 10-K. Scroll up for the cover. The panel on the left lists:

• Documents: the main document first, then each exhibit, such as EX-10.1, by file name. Images and XBRL data files aren't listed; they're in the filing index on SEC EDGAR.
• External links: the filing index on SEC EDGAR, and the Inline XBRL viewer (SEC Structured Data) when the filing has one.

Our server fetches documents from sec.gov, because sec.gov doesn't let other sites show its pages inside them. The viewer turns off their scripts and forms, and their links open in a new tab.

In filings with Inline XBRL, the numbers the company tagged for the whole company have a dotted underline. Choose one to open its history in a new tab: what the number means, its value in this filing, and every period of the same length the company reported, each linking to its filing. Numbers for one segment or product, and the company's own custom tags, aren't linked, because the SEC's data has no history for them.

Filing cards #

Every filing in a list has a one-line card built only from the SEC's own data for it: an 8-K's items ("Results of operations · Executive or director change"), a Form 4's trades ("CFO sold 12,000 shares at $41.20"), or the form's name. There's no interpretation in a card; open the filing to read it.

Some cards are flagged, from the same data and never by AI, with a coloured bar at the start of the row:

The feed, the home page and company search can show only flagged filings.

Following companies #

Live feed

Every filing on SEC EDGAR a minute or two after the SEC accepts it, by form group: events, reports, insiders, offerings, stakes, proxies and deals, or only the flagged ones.

Watchlist

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Press Watch on a company page. Your watchlist shows your companies' recent filings, filtered by period, form group or company, with the ones new since your last visit marked.

Email alerts

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On your watchlist, choose which kinds of filings send you an email when one of your companies files them.

Checking what was filed #

Passage links

On a filing page, paste text from the document into "Link to a passage" to get a link that opens the filing with that text highlighted, and a citation to copy.

What changed

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Press Compare on a 10-K, 10-Q, 20-F or proxy statement to see it against the company's previous one, section by section. The earlier wording sits beside the new: removed words are marked on the left, added words on the right.

An index of the changed sections stays in view, the three most changed marked; Previous and Next change (or k and j) step through them. A paragraph where only numbers changed is shown as Figures changed. One where only dates rolled forward ("as of January 26, 2025" to "January 25, 2026") is folded, with a count and a button to show them.

Search filings

Find words inside filing documents, across every company, one company or your watchlist.

Check a claim

Find the passages that hold a claim's words and numbers.

Summaries

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Press Summarize on a filing for a short AI-written summary of a document, where every point links to the passages it comes from.

Search, claim checks, comparisons and summaries cover the documents we've indexed: three years of 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filings from every actively traded company, more forms for watched companies, and any document someone has opened.

Keyboard shortcuts #

Shortcuts don't work while you're typing in a field. If they get in the way of your screen reader or speech input, turn them off; the site remembers for a year.

Data sources #

• Company details and filing lists come from the SEC's EDGAR APIs (opens in new tab) .
• Tickers are matched to companies with the SEC's company ticker list.
• The filings list is stored by Cite Filings and updated daily from the SEC's daily index. A company opened for the first time shows the SEC's 1,000 most recent filings until its full history has been stored.
• Filing documents and Form 4 trades come from the EDGAR archives on sec.gov.
• The home page's Recent IPOs list comes from final IPO prospectuses (Form 424B4) in the SEC's daily index: companies with stock on Nasdaq or NYSE that hadn't reported to the SEC before, without SPACs.

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