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Action: Search SEC Filings
Action: Search SEC Filings
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Overview

The Search SEC Filings action allows you to retrieve the full text of a public company's quarterly (10-Q) or annual (10-K) financial report by providing the company's ticker symbol. This action is useful for conducting in-depth research and analysis on a company for purposes such as account planning, sales outreach, or marketing messaging. The retrieved report text can be further processed using other actions like Extract Data from Text to parse out specific information like revenue figures, positive/negative news, or job openings.

Usage Examples

  • Combine with Extract Data From Text action - You can use the output from the Search SEC Filings action, which provides the full text of a company's quarterly (10-Q) or annual (10-K) report, as input to the Extract Data from Text action. This allows you to parse out and extract specific pieces of information from the report text, such as revenue figures, positive news announcements, or details on business challenges. This extracted data can then be used by sales and marketing teams to build tailored messaging for outreach to the company as a prospective customer if they fit your ideal customer profile.

  • Combine with other related actions - The SEC filing data from this action can be combined with outputs from other related actions like getEarningsCall (transcript of earnings calls), getCompanyNews (latest news), and getJobOpenings (current job listings) to build a comprehensive information profile on a company or sales prospect account. Having this multi-source data provides sales and marketing teams with thorough research to understand the company.

  • Use Generate Text to synthesize information - After gathering all the relevant company information from SEC filings, earnings calls, news, job openings etc., you can use the generateText action to synthesize and summarize all this data into an overarching account plan. This details how your team would approach outreach and messaging to this specific prospective company given the research findings.

Inputs

  • Ticker Symbol - The stock ticker symbol for the publicly traded company you want to search SEC filings for. This should be a valid ticker for a US company listed on a US stock exchange. Example: AAPL

  • Filing Type - The specific type of SEC filing you want to retrieve for the company. You have two options: 10-Q - This will retrieve the latest quarterly report (Form 10-Q) filed by the company.

    10-K - This will retrieve the latest annual report (Form 10-K) filed by the company.

Outputs

The Search SEC Filings action outputs the full text of either the latest quarterly report (10-Q) or the latest annual report (10-K) for a given publicly traded company, based on the user's selection of the filing type. This text can then be used as input for other actions or Workflows to synthesize, distill, and extract key information that is relevant for account planning and research purposes.

So in essence, while the core output is just the text of the SEC filing itself, the true value lies in using this text for further processing, analysis and integration with other data sources to derive targeted insights for better engagement with the company.

Troubleshooting

  • Incorrect ticker symbol - Ensure that the ticker symbol for the public company is entered correctly into the input field. An incorrect ticker symbol will lead to the action not being able to find the SEC filings for the intended company.

  • Company recently went public - If the company has only recently become a publicly traded company, the SEC filings you are looking for may not be available yet through this action. There is typically a lag between a company going public and their filings becoming accessible.

Related Actions

  • Extract Data from Text - This action allows you to parse out specific pieces of information from a block of text. For example, you can use it to extract revenue figures, positive news, or challenges from the SEC filings obtained through the Search SEC Filings action.

  • Get Ticker Symbol - Before using the Search SEC Filings action, you can utilize the Get Ticker Symbol action to obtain the stock ticker symbol for the public company just by providing the company's domain name. This saves you the step of having to manually search for and lookup the ticker symbol yourself.

  • Get Earnings Call - This action retrieves the transcript or recording of a company's earnings call. Used together with SEC filings and other information, it can provide comprehensive data about a company for account research purposes.

  • Get Company News - This action fetches recent news articles about a specified company. The news can supplement the financial data from SEC filings to give a well-rounded view of the company's situation.

  • Get Job Openings - This action pulls up the current job listings for a company. The open roles can provide insights into the company's areas of focus and growth plans.

  • Generate Text - After gathering all the relevant company information from SEC filings, news, earnings calls etc., this action can synthesize and summarize it into an account plan or prospecting messaging tailored for that specific company.

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