Today’s Form 8-K Filings

Form 8-K is the SEC's current report. A US public company has four business days to file one after a material event, the kind a reasonable investor would want to know about. The 10-K and 10-Q arrive on a schedule; an 8-K does not. Earnings releases, big contracts, acquisitions, executive departures, bankruptcy filings and auditor changes all come through it, often on the same day the company announces them.

The SEC sorts 8-Ks by item number, and every filing lists its items on the cover. The ones traders read first are Item 1.01 (a material definitive agreement, including M&A), Item 2.02 (results of operations, usually earnings), Item 5.02 (executive departures and appointments), Items 7.01 and 8.01 (Regulation FD disclosures and other events) and Item 1.03 (bankruptcy or receivership). The table shows the items each filing cites and links to the document, so you can go straight to the part you need.

An insider purchase shortly before a company files an 8-K is worth a second look. So every 8-K we store is checked against insider purchases at the same company in the 42 days before it was filed, and each overlap is recorded as a catalyst match. The match rests on dates and filers only, so it does not depend on reading the filing. See current insider clusters

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