Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about FiledFeed, the data behind it, and what it does and doesn’t do.
- FiledFeed is a free website that streams SEC EDGAR filings in real time and turns their XBRL financials into clean numbers and charts. It covers 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F and 6-K filings (plus amendments and late-filing notices) for U.S. and foreign public companies, so you can see what a company filed and understand the figures without a finance degree or an expensive terminal.
- Every figure comes straight from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR system — the official source companies file to. FiledFeed does not buy or resell third-party data; it reads the SEC’s public feeds and inline-XBRL filings directly.
- Yes. Browsing the live feed, company pages, financial charts and filing details is free. A free account lets you build a watchlist and filter the feed to the companies you follow.
- New filings typically appear in the feed within about a minute of the SEC disseminating them during EDGAR’s business hours (roughly 6am–10pm ET on weekdays).
- No. FiledFeed presents public regulatory filings and the numbers within them for informational purposes only. It is not investment advice, and you should do your own research before making financial decisions.
- FiledFeed tracks the five filing families that matter most for understanding a company: 10-K (annual report), 10-Q (quarterly report), 8-K (material event), 20-F (foreign annual report) and 6-K (foreign interim report), along with their amendments (marked “/A”) and late-filing notices (Form 12b-25, shown as “NT”). Insider Forms 3/4/5, fund filings and 13-F holdings are out of scope for now.
- Use the search box in the top navigation — type a ticker (AAPL), a company name (Apple), or a CIK number. You can also browse the full company directory, or drill in by industry sector or filing type. Company pages live at filedfeed.com/company/{ticker}.
- XBRL is the structured, machine-readable data format the SEC requires inside many filings. It’s what lets FiledFeed extract exact figures — revenue, net income, cash flow — directly from a 10-K or 10-Q rather than scraping prose. Filings before roughly 2009, and narrative-only forms like 8-K and 6-K, often have no XBRL, so those may show filing details without a full financial breakdown.
- A few reasons: the company pre-dates XBRL, the latest filing is still being processed, the form simply doesn’t contain that figure, or a company used a custom tag we haven’t confidently mapped yet. We deliberately show a blank rather than guess — accuracy over completeness.
- Yes. Create a free account and add companies to your watchlist from any company page, then toggle “My Watchlist” on the live feed to filter the tape down to just the companies you follow.
- No. FiledFeed is an independent product that reads the SEC’s public EDGAR data. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Still curious? Browse the filing glossary or read about FiledFeed.