Sec Edgar Trigger Monitor

Track material events for any public US company by monitoring their SEC filings for high-impact triggers like M&A, cybersecurity incidents, executive changes, and financial restatements.

Who This Is For

• Hedge funds tracking portfolio company events and market-moving disclosures
• M&A advisors monitoring acquisition targets and competitive deal activity
• Compliance teams flagging material events that require internal review
• Financial analysts researching corporate actions and financial health indicators
• Investigative journalists uncovering governance issues and management changes

What You Get

The actor outputs three types of records:

Row Type	Description	Count
filing	Every SEC filing matching your filters, with form type, dates, URLs, and 8-K item codes	One per filing
trigger	Individual 8-K trigger events extracted from item codes, with severity scores	One per item code
summary	Aggregate counts of filings and triggers by company and category	One per company

Trigger Severity Levels

8-K filings report specific events using item codes. This actor maps those codes to business-relevant triggers and assigns severity:

Severity	Categories	Example Item Codes
HIGH	M&A completions, bankruptcy, cybersecurity incidents, delisting, changes in control, financial restatements, material impairments	2.01, 1.03, 1.05, 3.01, 5.01, 4.02, 2.06
MEDIUM	Material agreements, executive/director changes, debt obligations, restructuring, auditor changes, ethics waivers	1.01, 1.02, 5.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 4.01, 5.05
LOW	Earnings releases, Reg FD disclosures, shareholder votes, exhibits	2.02, 7.01, 8.01, 5.07, 9.01

Sample Output

Filing row:

{
  "row_type": "filing",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "cik": "320193",
  "form_type": "8-K",
  "filing_date": "2026-01-29",
  "report_date": "2026-01-29",
  "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000005",
  "primary_doc": "aapl-20260129.htm",
  "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000005/aapl-20260129.htm",
  "items": "2.02,9.01",
  "size": 1243567,
  "is_xbrl": false
}

Trigger row:

{
  "row_type": "trigger",
  "company_name": "NETFLIX INC",
  "ticker": "NFLX",
  "cik": "1065280",
  "filing_date": "2025-12-22",
  "accession_number": "0001193125-25-213456",
  "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000119312525213456/nflx-20251222.htm",
  "item_code": "1.01",
  "item_description": "Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement",
  "trigger_category": "material_agreement",
  "severity": "medium"
}

Test Results

Test Scenario	Companies	Date Range	Filings	Triggers	Runtime
5 tech companies (AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, TSLA)	5	90 days	15	18	~5s
20 mixed companies, 8-K only	20	90 days	58	110	~12s
Boeing only, full year, category filter	1	365 days	14	3	~3s
Invalid ticker	1	90 days	0	0	~1s

Input Reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
companies	string	Yes	"AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, TSLA"	Comma-separated ticker symbols or CIK numbers
formTypes	array	No	["8-K", "10-K", "10-Q", "S-1", "DEF 14A"]	SEC form types to fetch
dateFrom	string	No	90 days ago	Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format
dateTo	string	No	Today	End date in YYYY-MM-DD format
triggerCategories	array	No	All	Filter to specific 8-K trigger categories
maxFilingsPerCompany	integer	No	200	Maximum filings per company (max 5000)
proxyConfig	object	No	None	Apify proxy configuration (usually not needed)

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing at $0.005 per output row (filings + triggers + summary rows).

Scenario	Companies	Date Range	Estimated Rows	Estimated Cost
Small portfolio	5	90 days	35	$0.18
Medium watchlist	20	90 days	170	$0.85
Large batch	50	30 days	250	$1.25

How It Works

The actor fetches recent filings from the SEC EDGAR company submissions API. It normalizes company identifiers (tickers and CIKs), filters by form type and date, and extracts filing metadata. For 8-K forms, it parses item codes from the raw filing data and maps them to trigger categories with severity scores. All data is output as structured JSON rows.

Data Source and Limitations

All data comes from the official SEC EDGAR API (www.sec.gov). No authentication required. The API rate limit is 10 requests per second, enforced automatically by the actor. Historical filings are available back to 1993, but metadata quality varies for older records. The actor processes up to 5000 filings per company. Invalid ticker symbols are logged and skipped without stopping the run. Trigger severity is based on common business risk patterns and may not reflect company-specific context.