SEC Company Tickers — CIK and Name Lookup

Resolve SEC CIK numbers from tickers and company names across all SEC-registered issuers (10 400+). Filter by exact ticker, partial name, or exchange. Returns cik, ticker, name, cik_padded. Built for research analysts, compliance teams, and AI agents that need to anchor a query to a specific issuer.

Free trial

A free Apify account gives you about 5 USD of monthly credits, more than enough to resolve hundreds of tickers or company names before paying.

Use cases

1. Portfolio ticker → CIK join — given a list of 200 tickers, look up each CIK and join to the SEC XBRL frames Actor for one financial-facts table.
2. Issuer due diligence — search by partial name (e.g. "NVIDIA") and check all matches before doing an SEC EDGAR full-text search on the chosen cik.
3. Bulk enrichment — for every holding in a CSV, fetch the padded 10-digit CIK to use in other Actors (e.g. cfpb-consumer-complaints-api).

Input

{
  "ticker": "NVDA",
  "name_contains": "",
  "exchange": "",
  "max_results": 5
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
ticker	string	""	Exact ticker (e.g. AAPL). Case-insensitive.
name_contains	string	""	Partial name match (case-insensitive substring).
exchange	string	""	Exchange code (e.g. Nasdaq, NYSE). Empty = all.
max_results	integer	20	Cap on returned records (1–200).

Output (real run)

[
  {
    "cik": 1045810,
    "cik_padded": "0001045810",
    "ticker": "NVDA",
    "name": "NVIDIA CORP",
    "name_upper": "NVIDIA CORP",
    "ticker_match_type": "exact",
    "name_match_type": "none",
    "fetched_at": "2026-10-07T14:52:15.046505Z"
  }
]

Field	Type	Description
cik	integer	SEC CIK as a number (no leading zeros).
cik_padded	string	10-digit zero-padded CIK (use for SEC URLs).
ticker	string	Primary ticker.
name	string	Issuer name (uppercase, as registered).
name_upper	string	Uppercase issuer name (helper).
ticker_match_type	string	exact | prefix | none.
name_match_type	string	exact | prefix | substring | none.
fetched_at	string	ISO timestamp of when this record was fetched.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• No subscription. Free monthly credits apply first.
• 1 result = $0.001 USD (about $1 per 1 000 results).
• Charged per item returned in the dataset; failed runs are not charged.

Source, licence, limits

• Source: SEC EDGAR company tickers file (company_tickers.json).
• Licence: US Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105).
• Update frequency: SEC publishes a fresh tickers file weekly; this Actor caches the latest version.
• Limits: SEC issuers only. OTC and Pink-sheet tickers not covered by EDGAR will not be found here.

FAQ

What's a CIK? Central Index Key — the unique numeric identifier the SEC assigns each filer. Use cik_padded (10 digits with leading zeros) when building SEC URLs.

Why does name look uppercase? The SEC tickers file uses uppercase issuer names. Convert with .title() if you need display formatting.

Can I look up multiple tickers in one run? Pass a comma-separated string in ticker (e.g. "AAPL,MSFT,NVDA"). The Actor splits and deduplicates.

How do I search by partial ticker like "AA"? Leave ticker empty and use name_contains="AA", or use the prefix match by leaving a trailing substring.

Is the tickers list real-time? No — it's the SEC-published file, refreshed weekly by our cache. For the latest, hit the SEC endpoint directly.

What about ETFs and funds? Yes — ETFs, funds, and registered investment advisers are in the SEC EDGAR tickers file and are returned by this Actor.

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Changelog

• 2026-10-12 — SEO metadata (seoTitle, seoDescription); README rewritten with real output sample, FAQ, cross-links.
• 2026-10-05 — Pricing switched to Apify pay-per-event ($0.001 per dataset item).
• 2026-09-30 — Initial public release on the Apify Store.