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Clear filtersShelf Registrations and At-the-Market Programs
A shelf pre-clears securities so they can be sold on short notice. An at-the-market offering is the quiet mechanism that sells them without an announcement.
Schedule 13D and Schedule 13G
Both are filed after crossing five percent of a class. Which one is filed is the entire message: one signals intent to influence, the other signals passivity.
Prospectus Supplements (424B)
The filing that sets the final terms of an actual sale under an existing registration. When a stock gaps down overnight on an offering, this is usually the document.
Form 144
Notice of an intended sale of restricted or control securities, filed before the sale rather than after. It is one of the few genuinely forward-looking filings.
Tender Offers and Merger Filings
When one company moves to acquire another, a specific set of filings follows on a defined schedule. The gap between the offer price and the market price is the market's estimate of whether it closes.
SEC Comment Letters
Correspondence in which SEC staff question a company's disclosure. Published once resolved, and almost nobody reads them.
Form 11-K
The annual report of an employee benefit plan that holds the company's own stock. Obscure, audited, and occasionally the only place a number appears.
Going Private
When a company or its insiders take it private, an additional filing is required, and it demands disclosure that an ordinary merger does not.
Reg A+ and Form D
Two routes to raising capital without a full registration. One is a limited public offering; the other is a private placement with a short notice filing.
XBRL and Structured Filing Data
Filings are tagged so that individual figures can be extracted by machine. It makes comparison across thousands of companies possible, with a specific set of caveats.