EDGAR
The public filing system of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where company and insider disclosures are submitted and published.
Updated 2026-07-26
EDGAR is the intake and publication system for documents that U.S. issuers, funds and individuals are required to file with the securities regulator. Anything filed there becomes public at the moment the system accepts and disseminates it, which is why almost every company and insider page on this site traces back to an EDGAR document.
Two properties of EDGAR shape everything downstream. First, it publishes documents, not answers: a filing is a form with a date, an author and a set of fields, and any figure you see elsewhere is somebody's reading of those fields. Second, it is organised by filer, not by subject — the same corporate event can appear in several filings by several parties, each with its own timestamp.
When a page here links to a source, that link points at the original document in EDGAR rather than at a summary. If our reading and the document disagree, the document is right.
Related terms
5 entries- Accession number
- The unique identifier of one submission to EDGAR, in the form 0001234567-25-000123.
- CIK
- The permanent numeric identifier the SEC assigns to every filer — company, fund or individual.
- Disclosure lag
- The gap between the date something happened and the date it became public.
- Form 13F
- A quarterly report in which a large institutional manager lists the U.S. equity positions it held on the last day of the quarter.
- Form 4
- The filing in which a company insider reports a change in their holdings, normally within two business days.