Finding Company Filings Outside the United States
Summary
This discussion surveys ways to find company filings outside the United States, with particular attention to Europe. It points to national registries such as the UK’s Companies House and Canada’s SEDAR, as well as broader search services that cover multiple countries. Some foreign companies also submit US-style filings to the SEC, and a European-wide search service is mentioned. The sources differ in coverage and level of detail, so no single database is presented as a complete substitute for the SEC’s filing system.
The discussion also raises a data-quality issue for quantitative research: company reports use differing formats and may not map cleanly to US quarterly and annual filings. It does not explain how Bloomberg or Reuters obtain or standardize reported figures, and it gives no evaluation of the listed services’ machine readability, completeness, or reliability. Researchers should therefore check the relevant jurisdiction and filing type when assembling international fundamental data.
Key ideas
- National filing registries can provide access to company disclosures outside the United States.
- Some foreign issuers also publish US-style filings through the SEC.
- Cross-country services vary in the detail and coverage they provide.
- International reports may not align directly with US quarterly and annual filing formats.
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# Is there an equivalent to SEC EDGAR for non-US companies, especially Europe? # Is there an equivalent to SEC EDGAR for non-US companies, especially Europe? For US public companies we can go on sec.gov to find their 10-K filings etc. Are there similar services in other countries? I'd be especially interested for in Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland etc. Companies normally have an investor relations website where they publish their reports. But they all use their own presentation, nothing is standardized, nothing is properly machine readable. I wonder, data providers such as Bloomberg, Reuters etc, do they manually transcribe the numbers from the reports into their system? Or do the companies report to them directly, in some standardized electronic form? ## Answer by Dimitri Vulis (score 2) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/54261 Many foreign companies post thie US-style statements on Edgar. The problem with other countries' filings is that they don't necessarily map in an obvious way to US 10Q/10K. You may want to look at UK Companies House https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house and https://www.gov.uk/get-information-about-a-company SEDAR is a Canadian system similar to Edgar https://www.sedar.com/homepage_en.htm ## Answer by Zoe Nolan (score 2) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/54262 The UK has Companies House and OpenCorporates cover the whole planet but does not have much detail in some countries. The EU has a pan-European search engine. Wikipedia also has a list of company registers. ## Answer by Kism281 (score 2) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/71010 There are a few websites that let you search filings for US companies: AlphaSense, AlphaResearch, Sentieo. They are not goverment-backed like Edgar but they do provide filings and the ability to search through them ## Answer by Silas Hundhausen (score 0) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/80102 Yes, we are working on this: https://financialreports.eu/ Filings from European stock-listed companies.
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