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The Company Registry is FocusAlpha’s canonical record of listed companies — roughly 25,000 companies across 82 countries. Each observation is one company, identified by a company_id such as cmp_014081, and carries its name, country, sector, primary listing and market capitalisation. The registry is what every other dataset’s company identifier resolves against.
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What You Can Use the Company Registry For

Resolve whatever identifier you hold — ticker, CIK, ISIN, Taiwan security code, Korean DART corp code — to one canonical company_id. Confirm which company a name refers to before running a larger query. Check what kind of company you are dealing with and which market it lists on.

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Company Registry Coverage

Roughly 25,000 listed companies in 82 countries.
The registry is wider than the SEC datasets. Finding a company here does not mean it files with the SEC. A company with no CIK files nothing with the SEC, so every SEC-scoped dataset will be empty for it no matter how it is queried — that is a coverage fact about the company, not a gap in the data.
The registry deliberately excludes exchange-traded funds. ETFs live in their own registry — see ETF Identifiers.

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Company Registry Date Convention

The registry is a current snapshot, not a history. A company’s earlier name or ticker still resolves to it, but the row returned shows today’s values. To see how a listing changed over time, use Company Listings, where each symbol carries the dates it was valid for.

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Key Company Registry Fields

company_id is the canonical identifier. Name, country, sector and industry describe the company. The primary listing carries the symbol and exchange. market_cap sizes it.
market_cap is denominated in market_cap_currency, which is not the row’s currency. The row’s currency is what the listing’s price is quoted in. For London-listed names the price currency is GBp — pence — while the market cap is in GBP. To compare sizes across countries, use Company Screening, which converts to US dollars.

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How Non-US Symbols Are Spelled

Non-US symbols carry their market suffix: 2330.TW, 6976.TWO, 005930.KS. A bare local code passed as ticker finds nothing. Local codes have their own parameters instead. local_security_code takes a Taiwan security code such as 2330, and corp_code takes an eight-digit Korean DART code.
The regional endpoints accept a Taiwan code, a suffixed ticker, a Korean corp code, an ISIN or a company_id directly. There is no need to resolve an identifier through the registry before calling them.

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Company Registry Sources

The registry is assembled from exchange listing registries, regulator filings and identifier registries, and maintained as an append-only ledger of identifiers so a company keeps its company_id across renames and re-listings.

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Search the Company Registry

Use the companies endpoint. At least one parameter is required on every page.
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string
Company-name substring, minimum 2 characters.
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string
Trading symbol, with its market suffix for non-US listings.
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string
SEC Central Index Key.
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string
ISIN.
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string
A Taiwan security code, such as 2330.
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string
An eight-digit Korean DART corp code.
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string
Country of the company.
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integer
Rows per page. Page through with cursor.
To read one company by its company_id, use the company profile endpoint. An unknown company_id returns a 404, not an empty list. See also Company Identifiers for every id a company is known by, Company Listings for its symbols and their validity dates, Corporate Events for splits, mergers and ticker changes, Company Screening to find companies by condition rather than by identifier, and Company Facts for the SEC filer record.