Would your rule have fired?
Name a US-listed company and one numeric condition you would want to hold. We run it against every annual account that company has filed with the SEC and show you each fiscal year in which it was false, with the figure and the filing it came from.
The condition is yours. We do not propose one, and nothing below is a view on any company.
How to read the answer
- Coverage comes before the result
- Every answer says first how many filed fiscal years it could look at, and whether the figure appears in all of them. A bank does not report a gross margin, and that is not a gap in our data: it is how a bank presents its accounts, and the answer says so rather than reporting nothing found.
- A year with no figure stays blank
- It counts in neither total. Nothing is filled in, and nothing is read as zero.
- Never firing is a finding
- Most conditions on a well chosen company never fire. When that happens the answer gives the range the figure actually occupied, so a line that could never have been crossed is visible as such. It does not tell you where to put the line: fitting a rule to past filings is not research.
- Figures come from the filings
- Only figures traceable to a document at sec.gov are printed here, and each year links to the filing it came from. Anything held from a commercial feed is left out and counted, rather than shown without a source you can open.
Filed figures from SEC EDGAR. This is a computation on public filings, not a recommendation, and not advice. Past filings do not indicate future results.