8-K API — Material Events: CEO Exits, Restatements, M&A

Get alerted when a company reports something big: a CFO resigns, earnings are restated, the auditor is fired, a merger closes, or bankruptcy is filed. Classified, with the key paragraph, straight from SEC EDGAR.

Public companies must file a Form 8-K within four business days of any major event. Each 8-K is tagged with one or more items that say what happened: 5.02 for an executive or board change, 4.02 for a restatement, 1.03 for bankruptcy, and so on. Reading hundreds of 8-Ks a day to find the few that matter is painful. This Actor gives you each filing as a clean row: what happened, a red-flag marker, and the text under each item heading.

Part of the SmartMoney Data suite: Insider Trades · Hedge Fund 13F Holdings · Congress Stock Trades · Form 144 Planned Sales · 13D/13G Activist Stakes · 8-K Material Events

What you can do with it

• 🚨 Red-flag alerts: restatements, auditor changes, impairments, delisting notices, debt acceleration, cyber incidents and bankruptcies across the whole market.
• 👔 Executive departures: "CFO resigned" is one of the most-watched signals in investing. Filter to 5.02 filings that mention a resignation or retirement.
• 📅 Earnings and deals: earnings releases (2.02), material agreements (1.01), completed acquisitions (2.01).
• 📰 Newsletters and feeds: a daily digest of material events for a watchlist, ready to post.
• 🤖 AI agents: "Did anything material happen at Boeing this month?" as one tool call, with the paragraphs an LLM needs to summarise it.

Features

• ✅ Every 8-K item classified, with the official item title and a short category
• ✅ Red-flag marker for 1.03, 1.05, 2.04, 2.06, 3.01, 4.01 and 4.02
• ✅ Executive-change hint for 5.02: departure or appointment, and which roles (CEO, CFO, COO, director…) are mentioned
• ✅ Text under each item heading, taken from the filing and cut to a length you choose
• ✅ Event date (the "date of earliest event reported") and the exact SEC acceptance time
• ✅ Any ticker, or the latest filings market-wide
• ✅ Filters for item codes, red flags, executive departures, amendments and exhibit-only filings. You only pay for rows you keep.
• ✅ Per-ticker summary of event categories, red flags first
• ✅ Link to the official filing and main document on every row

How to use it

Everything material at your watchlist, last 30 days

{ "tickers": ["AAPL", "BA", "INTC"], "lookbackDays": 30 }

Red flags across the whole market

{ "redFlagsOnly": true, "latestFilingsCount": 100 }

Executive departures market-wide

{ "items": ["5.02"], "executiveDeparturesOnly": true, "latestFilingsCount": 100 }

Earnings releases only, item codes only (fast)

{ "tickers": ["NVDA", "MSFT"], "items": ["2.02"], "includeText": false, "lookbackDays": 365 }

Output

One row per 8-K filing. Example (illustrative values):

{
  "ticker": "BA",
  "companyName": "BOEING CO",
  "cik": "0000012927",
  "form": "8-K",
  "isAmendment": false,
  "eventDate": "2026-09-22",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-23",
  "acceptedAt": "2026-09-23T16:30:00.000Z",
  "itemCodes": ["5.02", "9.01"],
  "categories": ["Executive / board change"],
  "headline": "Executive / board change",
  "hasRedFlag": false,
  "executiveChange": { "departure": true, "appointment": true, "roles": ["CFO"] },
  "items": [
    {
      "code": "5.02",
      "title": "Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers",
      "category": "Executive / board change",
      "redFlag": false,
      "text": "On September 22, 2026, Jane Doe notified the Company of her decision to resign as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer…"
    },
    { "code": "9.01", "title": "Financial Statements and Exhibits", "category": "Exhibits", "redFlag": false, "text": "(d) Exhibits. 99.1 Press release…" }
  ],
  "accessionNumber": "0000012927-26-000010",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292726000010/0000012927-26-000010-index.htm",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/12927/000001292726000010/ba-8k.htm"
}

A SUMMARY record in the key-value store counts filings, red flags and event categories per ticker.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
tickers	Tickers to track. Empty = latest filings market-wide	[]
items	Keep filings with one of these item codes, e.g. 5.02, 4.02	[]
redFlagsOnly	Keep only filings with a red-flag item	false
executiveDeparturesOnly	Keep only 5.02 filings that mention a resignation, retirement or termination	false
lookbackDays	Ticker mode: only filings from the last N days	30
maxFilingsPerTicker	Cap per ticker	50
latestFilingsCount	Market-wide mode: how many of the latest 8-Ks to read	40
skipExhibitOnly	Skip 8-Ks whose only item is 9.01	true
includeAmendments	Include 8-K/A	true
includeText	Download each filing and return the item text	true
maxTextChars	Maximum characters of text per item	3000

Item codes

Code	Event	Red flag
1.01 / 1.02	Material agreement entered / terminated
1.03	Bankruptcy or receivership	🚩
1.05	Material cybersecurity incident	🚩
2.01	Acquisition or disposition completed
2.02	Earnings (results of operations)
2.03 / 2.04	New debt obligation / debt acceleration	🚩 (2.04)
2.05	Restructuring (exit or disposal costs)
2.06	Material impairment	🚩
3.01	Delisting notice or listing transfer	🚩
3.02 / 3.03	Unregistered equity sale / change to shareholder rights
4.01	Auditor change	🚩
4.02	Previous financial statements can't be relied on (restatement)	🚩
5.01	Change in control
5.02	Director or officer departure, election or appointment
5.03	Bylaws or fiscal year change
5.07	Shareholder vote results
7.01	Regulation FD disclosure
8.01	Other events
9.01	Financial statements and exhibits

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged for each filing returned after filters, never for filings that are filtered out. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

FAQ

How fast is the data? The Actor reads EDGAR directly, so a filing is available as soon as the SEC publishes it, usually within minutes of acceptance. Schedule it every 15 minutes in market-wide mode for near-real-time alerts.

How accurate is the executive-change hint? It is a keyword read of the Item 5.02 text: resignation, retirement or termination words, and officer titles. It is meant for filtering and alerts. Read the item text or the filing before acting on it.

Where does the item text come from? From the main 8-K document: the text between each "Item X.XX" heading and the next heading or the signature block. Press releases attached as exhibits are linked from the filing page but not included.

Is this legal to use? Yes. 8-K filings are public records published by the SEC. The Actor follows the SEC's fair-access rules: rate-limited, identified with a User-Agent.

Related Actors

• 👔 SEC Insider Trades Tracker: Form 4 buys and sells by CEOs and directors.
• 🚨 Form 144 Planned Insider Sales: executives and directors who have filed to sell, before the sale happens.
• 🎯 13D & 13G Activist Stakes: activist funds and 5%+ owners, with their stated purpose.
• 🏦 Hedge Fund 13F Holdings Tracker: what Berkshire, Pershing Square & co. bought and sold last quarter.
• 🏛️ Congress Stock Trades Tracker: stock trades by US Senators and Representatives.

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