Form 10-Q
The quarterly report of a U.S. public company, with unaudited financial statements.
Updated 2026-07-26
A 10-Q covers one fiscal quarter. Its statements are reviewed rather than audited, its notes are shorter, and the fourth quarter usually has no 10-Q at all because the annual report covers it.
That gap is worth remembering when building a quarterly series: a company with four 10-Q filings a year is unusual, and a missing Q4 is normal rather than a data defect. We show what was filed and label the period, instead of interpolating a quarter that has no document.
Quarterly figures are frequently restated in later filings. Where an amendment exists, both the original and the amendment are part of the record.
Related terms
4 entries- Amended filing
- A later version of a filing that corrects or supplements the original, usually marked with an /A suffix.
- Fiscal period
- The stretch of time a reported figure covers, which need not line up with the calendar year.
- Form 10-K
- The annual report of a U.S. public company, containing audited financial statements and a description of the business.
- XBRL
- The tagging standard that turns figures inside a financial report into machine-readable facts.
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