SEC EDGAR
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's public system for company and fund filings, which anyone can search for free.
What it means
EDGAR is the system companies and others use to submit filings under federal securities laws. The SEC describes it as the primary system for those submissions. The database holds millions of filings, including annual and quarterly reports, and it covers mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and some individuals as well as companies.
Access to the public database is free. The SEC reports that the system processes about 4,700 filings per day. For due diligence and public company research, EDGAR is usually the first source to check, because a company's own filing is a primary source. Read the original filing rather than a summary, and check the date and the section the figure comes from. Filings are also dated, so a figure from last year's report may no longer describe the company.
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