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Public companies will often post recent SEC filings or several years worth of annual reports for shareholders on their websites in the following areas:

Investors
Investor Relations
Financials

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Filings (SEC)

Mergent - SEC Filings

Mergent provides access to reformatted SEC documents. This resource allows you to search for specific SEC forms, such as, Form S-1 or registration statements which are documents released by companies with their initial public offering or IPO.

Example Search: Current and Historical 10K filings.

Step 1. Company Name or Ticker Symbol

Step 2. Select a date range

Step 3. Select type of filing, example 10K

Step 4. Click Search

Mergent Online contains copies of corporate filings released to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by publicly traded companies. Mergent has reformatted these documents making them available in .PDF, EXCEL & Word format.

Search using company name or ticker symbol
Select the Filings Tab

Mergent Online
1990 - present. 25 users.

Updated weekly. Provides immediate access to data on more than 10,000 NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq and other select regional exchange companies. Coverage includes: history, business description, properties, subsidiaries, officers, directors, long-term debt, Moody's rating, capital stock, income statement, balance sheet, statements of cash flow, auditors, exchange and ticker symbol, number of employees, number of shareholders, address, telephone number, annual stock price ranges, trustee, registrar, transfer agent, stock splits, annual meeting date, Moody's news reports, and direct, real-time access to the EDGAR, the SEC website which includes are annual, quarterly, and special corporation records. The resource was formerly called FIS Online.

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Company 10-K (Annual Reports)

Click on Filings - Company Filings.
In the Symbol/Name search box, type the company name or ticker symbol. Select from drop-down menu.
In the Filings Category/Type search box, type 10-K. Select from drop-down menu.
Click on Search.

Thomson One
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Thomson ONE Features market quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and research from Thomson Financial.
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Access to this resource is partially funded by the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

EDGAR | Company Filings
Free access to more than 21 million filings.

Company Research

SEC Filings

Public companies will often post recent SEC filings or several years worth of annual reports for shareholders on their websites in the following areas:

Investors

Investor Relations

Financials

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Filings (SEC)