SEC 8-K Material Events Monitor 🔔

Get alerted the moment a company reports something material — M&A, bankruptcy, CEO changes, earnings, delistings, cyber breaches — straight from SEC 8-K filings.

When something important happens at a US public company, it must file a Form 8-K, usually within four business days. Each 8-K declares one or more numbered Items that say exactly what kind of event it is. This Actor watches the companies you care about, decodes those cryptic Item codes into plain English, and links you straight to the filing.

Built to be near-maintenance-free: event types come straight from SEC's official metadata feed — no document parsing, no proxy, no browser.

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What you can do with it

• 🔔 Real-time corporate event alerts — run on a schedule, get pinged on CEO exits, M&A, bankruptcies.
• 📰 Newsroom / PR monitoring — track material events across a list of companies.
• 📉 Trading signals — earnings, restatements, delistings, impairments as structured events.
• 🧭 Portfolio watch — monitor every company you hold or cover in one run.
• 🗂️ Compliance & research feeds — a clean, decoded 8-K event stream.

Features

• ✅ Plain-English event types — 5.02 becomes "Departure/Appointment of Directors or Officers".
• ✅ Friendly categories — Earnings, M&A, Bankruptcy, Executive Changes, Delisting, Cybersecurity, and more.
• ✅ Event-type filtering — monitor only the events that matter to you (defaults to a high-signal set).
• ✅ Ticker → company resolution — type AAPL, not a CIK.
• ✅ Direct filing links — jump to the actual 8-K to read the detail.
• ✅ Fast & cheap — pure metadata, official SEC endpoints, tiny footprint.

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Input

Field	Description
Tickers to monitor	e.g. AAPL, TSLA, NVDA.
CIKs to monitor	SEC CIK numbers for filers without a ticker (optional).
Event types to keep	Which 8-K Item codes to report. Default = high-signal set; pick ALL for everything.
Lookback days	How many days back to scan (1–90).
Include amendments	Include 8-K/A amended filings.
Max results	Cap the number of events returned.
Contact email	Sent to SEC in the User-Agent, per their fair-access policy.

Example — watch a portfolio for major events

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "TSLA", "NVDA", "MSFT"],
  "items": ["1.03", "2.01", "5.02", "3.01", "1.05"],
  "daysBack": 30,
  "contactEmail": "you@example.com"
}

Example — every 8-K a company filed this week

{
  "tickers": ["GME"],
  "items": ["ALL"],
  "daysBack": 7,
  "contactEmail": "you@example.com"
}

Output

Each row is one 8-K filing with its events decoded:

{
  "issuer_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "issuer_ticker": "AAPL",
  "issuer_cik": "320193",
  "form_type": "8-K",
  "event_date": "2026-05-01",
  "filing_date": "2026-05-02",
  "accepted_datetime": "2026-05-02T16:30:00.000Z",
  "items": ["2.02", "9.01"],
  "item_labels": [
    "2.02 - Results of Operations and Financial Condition",
    "9.01 - Financial Statements and Exhibits"
  ],
  "event_categories": ["Earnings", "Exhibits"],
  "event_summary": "Results of Operations and Financial Condition; Financial Statements and Exhibits",
  "primary_document_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000050/aapl-8k.htm",
  "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000050/0000320193-26-000050-index.htm",
  "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000050"
}

Run it on a schedule

Set the Actor to run on a schedule (e.g. every morning, or hourly) with a short daysBack (1–2) to get a live feed of new material events. Connect a Slack / email / webhook / Google Sheets integration to push alerts to you automatically.

8-K event types cheat sheet

Item	Event	Category
1.01	Material agreement entered	M&A / Agreements
1.03	Bankruptcy or receivership	Bankruptcy
1.05	Material cybersecurity incident	Cybersecurity
2.01	Acquisition/disposition completed	M&A / Agreements
2.02	Earnings / results of operations	Earnings
2.06	Material impairment	Impairment / Costs
3.01	Delisting notice	Delisting
4.02	Financial restatement	Auditor / Restatement
5.01	Change in control	Change of Control
5.02	Executive / board change	Executive & Board Changes
7.01	Regulation FD disclosure	Reg FD
8.01	Other events	Other

Notes & limitations

• Uses SEC EDGAR's official public endpoints; respects SEC's fair-access rate limits.
• Reports the event type and links to the filing; it does not extract the narrative text of the 8-K (open the filing link for full detail).
• This is factual public data, not investment advice.

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