Is SEC EDGAR data free?

Yes. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission publishes all EDGAR filings and the company-facts financial data as free public data via its official APIs. There is no licence fee.

The CIK (Central Index Key) is the unique number the SEC assigns to every filer. You can look up a company by ticker (e.g. AAPL) or by CIK; the CIK is the reliable key because tickers can change.

What financials can I get?

Income statement (revenue, net income, EPS), balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity), cash flow, plus computed metrics like margins and growth — sourced from the company's 10-K and 10-Q XBRL filings.

How current is the data?

It reflects the latest filings on EDGAR — updated as companies file their 10-K (annual) and 10-Q (quarterly) reports.

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How to get SEC EDGAR financial data: 10-K, income statement & metrics

Every US public company files audited financials with the SEC on EDGAR. You can pull a company's income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, EPS and computed metrics by ticker or CIK — as clean JSON, no XBRL parsing required.

What is EDGAR and is the data free?

EDGAR is the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system — the official home of every 10-K (annual report), 10-Q (quarterly) and 8-K filing. The SEC publishes it as free public data through official APIs (company-facts XBRL), so there's no licence fee — only the work of parsing it.

What financials can you get?

Income statement — revenue, gross profit, operating income, net income, EPS.
Balance sheet — total assets, liabilities, shareholders' equity, cash.
Cash flow — operating, investing and financing cash flows.
Computed metrics — gross/net margin, year-over-year growth, and per-share figures.
Filing metadata — fiscal period, form type, filing date and accession number.

The easy way (by ticker or CIK)

The SEC's company-facts API returns deeply nested XBRL JSON that's painful to flatten into a usable statement. Instead, the SEC EDGAR Financials scraper on Apify takes a ticker or CIK and returns a clean, flat financial record — exportable to JSON / CSV / Excel for models and dashboards.

Use cases: equity research & screening, building financial models, comps analysis, credit & counterparty risk, and feeding fundamentals into dashboards or LLM pipelines.

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Is it legal?

EDGAR data is public and published by the U.S. government. The SEC asks that automated access include a declared User-Agent and respect fair-access rate limits — which the scraper handles for you.