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Company Facts provides basic information about an SEC issuer as filed: its name, its identifiers and related metadata. Each observation is one issuer, addressed by ticker or CIK. It is the lightweight lookup for confirming who a filer is before querying its filings or financials.
Plan: Free and above · Credits: 1 per call; the two coverage endpoints are free

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What You Can Use Company Facts For

Confirm that a ticker resolves to the issuer you expect before running a larger query. Map a ticker to a CIK for the SEC-scoped endpoints. Check that a company is present in the SEC datasets at all.

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Company Facts Coverage

Coverage is SEC filers. Two free discovery endpoints enumerate it: one lists every covered ticker, the other every covered CIK, zero-padded to ten characters. Both cost no credits. A company absent from these lists files nothing with the SEC that FocusAlpha holds, so every SEC-scoped dataset will be empty for it regardless of how it is queried. That is a different fact from the company not existing — see the company registry, which covers roughly 25,000 companies across 82 countries, most of which are not SEC filers.

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Key Company Facts Fields

Rows carry the issuer’s name, its ticker, its CIK and the related filing metadata the SEC publishes for it.

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Company Facts Sources

Facts are as filed with the SEC. Nothing is enriched from another source, and nothing is inferred.

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Query Company Facts

Use the company facts endpoint. One of ticker or cik is required.
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string
Trading symbol. One of ticker or cik is required.
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string
SEC Central Index Key. One of ticker or cik is required.
The two coverage endpoints take no parameters and cost no credits. See also Company Registry for the global company record, which is broader than the SEC filer universe, Company Identifiers for how identifiers resolve across the API, and SEC Filings Index for what the issuer has filed.