# Company Lookup

U.S. SEC

Resolve a U.S. public company name or ticker to its official SEC CIK identity.

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**Job:** [Search SEC filings](https://scrollport.com/tools/sec-edgar-api)

**Current price:** $0.0050/request

**Availability:** Ready to run

## Tool details

**About this tool**

Search the SEC's periodically updated company, ticker, CIK and exchange mapping and return bounded ranked candidates without silently selecting an ambiguous match. The output preserves ten-digit CIK strings, ticker, conformed company name, exchange and canonical EDGAR links, and explicitly states that the source mapping is not guaranteed complete or accurate.

**Inputs and outputs**

### Input

`limit` integer · optional

Value supplied for limit.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 25

`query` string · required

Search terms used to find relevant records.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 200

### Output

`ambiguous` boolean

Returned ambiguous value.

`captured_at` string

Returned captured at value.

`items` array

Returned items value.

`source_url` string

Returned source url value.

**Example request and output**

Inspect returns this reviewed example, its estimated cost and the current input schema. Run calculates the estimate for your actual input.

### Request

```
{
  "tool_id": "sec.company-lookup",
  "input": {
    "limit": 5,
    "query": "AAPL"
  }
}
```

### Output

```
{
  "items": [
    {
      "cik": "0000320193",
      "name": "Apple Inc.",
      "ticker": "AAPL",
      "exchange": "Nasdaq",
      "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=0000320193&owner=exclude"
    }
  ],
  "ambiguous": false,
  "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers_exchange.json",
  "captured_at": "2026-08-20T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

**Errors and limitations**

- `invalid_input`: query or limit was outside the bounded SEC company-lookup contract.example: {"query":"AAPL","limit":5}

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