> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Company Facts

> Basic issuer information as filed with the SEC: name, identifiers and related filing metadata.

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.

<Info>
  **Plan:** Free and above · **Credits:** 1 per call; the two coverage endpoints are free
</Info>

## 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.

## 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](/companies/registry), which covers roughly 25,000 companies across 82 countries, most of which are not SEC filers.

## Key Company Facts Fields

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

## Company Facts Sources

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

## Query Company Facts

Use the company facts endpoint. One of `ticker` or `cik` is required.

<ParamField query="ticker" type="string">
  Trading symbol. One of `ticker` or `cik` is required.
</ParamField>

<ParamField query="cik" type="string">
  SEC Central Index Key. One of `ticker` or `cik` is required.
</ParamField>

The two coverage endpoints take no parameters and cost no credits.

## Related Datasets

See also [Company Registry](/companies/registry) for the global company record, which is broader than the SEC filer universe, [Company Identifiers](/concepts/company-identifiers) for how identifiers resolve across the API, and [SEC Filings Index](/filings/index) for what the issuer has filed.

<RequestExample>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl "https://api.focusalpha.ai/v1/company/facts?ticker=AAPL" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOCUSALPHA_API_KEY"
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json Response theme={null}
  {
    "company_facts": {
      "ticker": "AAPL",
      "name": "Apple Inc.",
      "cik": "0000320193",
      "industry": "Industrial And Commercial Machinery And Computer Equipment",
      "sector": "Manufacturing",
      "category": "Large accelerated filer",
      "exchange": "Nasdaq",
      "is_active": true,
      "location": "CUPERTINO, CA",
      "sec_filings_url": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000320193&type=&dateb=&owner=include&count=40",
      "sic_code": "3571",
      "sic_industry": "Industrial And Commercial Machinery And Computer Equipment",
      "sic_sector": "Manufacturing"
    }
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>