Do you know Edgar? (pizzagate)

submitted ago by ghost_marauder

This is a basic tutorial on how to hunt down finances.

All publicly traded organizations need to put out reports to the SEC of major trades. As long as you can find the companies CIK you can locate most any public financial information on them, who their board members are, etc.

The SEC keeps their indexes of companies here ftp://ftp.sec.gov/edgar/daily-index/

Look for ftp://ftp.sec.gov/edgar/daily-index/company. <date> .idx It's a text file, and probably will not kill your browser like crawler.<date>.idx will (that thing is huge)

then google

site:https://www.sec.gov CIK 1084869

that's the CIK for (1800Flowers)

alternatively (if you want to do it the easy way)

https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

but, you have to get the name mostly correct (it's a stupid search engine).

If I type in young turks : I eventually get to https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1658907/000114420415068674/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml where they sold out to univision for $10 Million

but if I just type in turks I get TURKS HEAD SURGERY CENTER LLC

Good luck in your hunting!

Chance903 ago

Tools is a very good idea.

sheer-con ago

Helpful, thank you. Perhaps we need a tag for posts like this called "tools"

ghost_marauder ago

No problem. I'll put out one later about how to hunt information on 501 c 3 organizations.

cantsleepawink ago

Good post. Pity about the title :)

mixelplfft ago

yeah, can you change it to something more informative and less cryptic? can you even do that after the fact? and thank you very much - this looks to be a great resource for more digging.

ghost_marauder ago

This will sound very stupid (especially if you know I'm a system admin (not here)) but I don't get the user interface and don't know how.

ghost_marauder ago

I know, but I'm horrible with naming stuff.