🐋 SEC Schedule 13D/G Activist Tracker — 5%+ stake disclosures and activist campaign signals — Icahn, Ackman, Loeb

Track Schedule 13D and 13G filings from EDGAR — every disclosure of a 5%+ beneficial ownership stake in a U.S. public company. Schedule 13D signals activist intent (ability to influence control); 13G signals passive intent. This actor parses both, plus 13D/A amendments that signal new stake changes, board nominations, and proxy fights.

One actor. One token. Real-time regulator-direct data delivered in structured JSON.

Why This Actor Beats Bloomberg Terminal, FactSet, Refinitiv Eikon

• Activist Insight charges $20K+/year: Activist Insight's annual subscription is one of the most expensive event-driven research products on the market. We surface the same underlying EDGAR filings for cents per filing.
• 13D/A amendments parsed: Most 13D/G value comes from the amendments — stake increases, board nominations, public letters to management. We track every amendment and link back to the original filing.
• Filer-level history: We join filings by filer CIK so you can see every active campaign by Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman, Daniel Loeb, Engine No. 1, Elliott, Starboard, and the rest of the activist universe.
• Same-day delivery: 13D must be filed within 10 days of crossing 5%. Our scraper sees the filing within minutes of EDGAR acceptance.

Feature	This Actor 🐋	Bloomberg Terminal	FactSet	Refinitiv Eikon
Pricing model	Pay-per-result (cents per record)	Per-seat license $5K-30K/yr	Per-seat license $10K-25K/yr	Per-seat license $10K-30K/yr
Free tier	Yes (Apify free credits)	No	No	Limited search only
Real-time freshness	Minutes after source publish	End-of-day refresh	Hourly refresh	Hourly refresh
Data source	Direct from regulator	Mixed proprietary + scraped	Mixed proprietary + scraped	Mixed proprietary + scraped
API access	REST + webhooks built in	Add-on; extra licence	Add-on; extra licence	Limited
Bulk historical	Yes — date-range backfill	Limited download caps	Limited download caps	Limited download caps
Setup time	5 minutes (token + run)	Procurement + onboarding	Procurement + onboarding	Procurement + onboarding

What You Get

Every record returned by this actor is structured JSON with the following fields populated wherever the source filing provides them:

• Subject company name, CIK, ticker
• Filer (reporting person) name, CIK, individual or entity flag
• Filing type (13D, 13G, 13D/A, 13G/A)
• Filing date, event date, accession number, EDGAR URL
• Beneficial ownership percentage and share count
• Sole vs. shared voting and dispositive power breakdown
• Purpose of transaction (item 4 narrative for 13D filings)
• Source of funds, contracts, and arrangements
• Group filing flag and group member list
• Prior 13D/G filings for the same filer-subject pair

The full output schema is stable across runs — safe to load into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, or your data warehouse without re-mapping each refresh.

Use Cases

• Event-driven hedge funds — Trade the activist-announcement pop and follow-on outperformance.
• Equity analysts — Flag activist campaigns in your covered names early.
• Risk teams — Monitor your portfolio for hostile-takeover risk from new 13D filers.
• Investor relations — Be the first to know when an activist crosses 5% in your company.
• Journalists — Investigate proxy fights and campaign narratives in real time.
• M&A bankers — Spot pre-deal accumulation by strategics — sometimes a 13D filing precedes a takeover offer.
• Academic researchers — Build decades-long activist-event datasets for empirical studies.

Quick Start

Install the Apify Python client, set your token, and call the actor:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("nexgendata/sec-schedule-13dg-activist-tracker").call(run_input={
    "maxItems": 100,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

You can also trigger via cURL:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~sec-schedule-13dg-activist-tracker/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 100}'

Schedule it on Apify's built-in scheduler for daily, hourly, or every-5-minute refreshes — no infra required.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing on Apify. Primary event: 13D/G filing at $0.15 per record. An Actor Start fee of $0.00005 applies per run (charged per GB of memory, minimum 1). No subscription, no seat licence, no procurement cycle — pay only for the rows you receive.

For high-volume use cases (100K+ records/month), contact us at NexGenData for volume discounts.

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FAQ

Q: What triggers a 13D vs. 13G filing?

A: Cross 5% beneficial ownership in a U.S. public company. 13D = activist intent. 13G = passive (institutional or non-control). 13G filers can convert to 13D when intent changes.

Q: How fast must 13D be filed?

A: Within 10 calendar days of crossing 5%. Amendments must be filed promptly upon material changes.

Q: Are HSR antitrust filings included?

A: No — HSR is a separate FTC/DOJ filing not on EDGAR. This actor covers SEC 13D/G only.

Q: Do you parse item 4 narrative?

A: Yes — the activist intent statement from 13D item 4 is captured as text. NLP-on-top is your downstream step.

Q: What's historical coverage?

A: EDGAR 13D/G archive starts in 1995. Filings are continuously available through present.

Q: Can I track a specific activist?

A: Yes. Pass filer_cik to filter to all filings by Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman, or any other reporting person.

About NexGenData

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