Government Filings Search
This
page enables you to search the EDGAR government filings either by company
information or by date or both.
Three
links are available in the page to help you specify the criteria to be used in
the search. The EDGAR Definitions and EDGAR Filing Types links
display pages that give definitions of names used for filings and abbreviations
used in them. The SEC CIK Database link displays the page on the
Securities and Exchange Commission Web site where you can search for the
Central Index Key of a company.
You
can also request that e-mail messages be sent to you by EDGAR when new filings
for selected companies are added. Choose the Email Alerts link on this
page to maintain the list of companies for which you wish to receive alerts. See
Government Filings Email Alerts for more information on this.
1.
If necessary, choose Reset to clear any previous settings
that may have been made.
2.
To search by Company Name, Ticker or Central
Index Key, select the appropriate radio button and enter the text required.
3.
To search for text within EDGAR documents, enter the text in the Search
Text edit box. Note: For advanced
text searching capabilities see below.
4.
To search by date, select the appropriate radio button and, if necessary,
enter the date(s) required in the edit boxes.
5.
To search for a particular EDGAR government filing type, select it
from the drop down list or enter it into the edit box.
6.
When ready, choose the Search button to start the search
for filings satisfying the criteria specified.
This will take you to be Government Filings Search Results page.
You
can search for certain text within a specific company's filings by entering a Company
Name, Ticker Symbol, or Central Index Key (CIK) along with
the text search or you can search all EDGAR filings by just filling out the Search
Text field in Section 1.
i.e. "Microsoft Windows"
Quotation Marks denote a 'close to' situation. Including
words in quotation marks searches for occurrences of those words on the same
line within a filing.
i.e. Microsoft
Office Systems
You may also just enter a brand name or phrase without quotation marks.
* Asterisk - a *
i.e. bank *
In the example above the text search will look for all words that start with
the letters "bank", and end with any of these common endings:
"able, ally, ality, ation,
ed, ent, er, es, est,
ible, iest, ility, ing, ingly,
ion, ist, less, ly, ment, nent, n, or, s, tion". For the example above the search will find
banks, banker, banking, banked, bankable within the filings.
AND operator - 'a' and 'b'
i.e. bankruptcy
and merger = bankruptcy+merger
The AND operator will search both occurrences of 'a' and 'b' in each filing.
This does not assure close proximity of these words, but will assure both words
occurred at least once in the filings in the results.
NOT operator - 'a' not 'b'
i.e. Donald
J Trump NOT Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc
The NOT operator will search for the occurrence of 'a' but will not include
those filings which also include 'b'.
( ) Parenthesis - (a or b) and c
i.e. (merger or acquisition) and bankruptcy
The parenthesis denotes a group. A group will be
searched before any other attached expressions. The results of the group will
then be searched with the attached expressions then the results will be shown.
NEAR (C) - A near (C) B
Where:
A = First word
C = Number of words within
B = Second word
i.e. Letter
near (2) credit
The NEAR operator will search for the occurrence of 'A' that are within 'C'
words (on either side) of 'B'
Join (C) - A join (C) B
Where:
A = First word
C = Number of words after
B = Second Word
i.e. International
join (1) Machines
The JOIN ( ) operator will search for all occurrences of 'B' that are within
'C' words after 'A'.
Note: You can use any combination of the above operators in your text
search string.