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
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

limitinteger · optional

Value supplied for limit.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 25

querystring · required

Search terms used to find relevant records.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 200

Output

ambiguousboolean

Returned ambiguous value.

captured_atstring

Returned captured at value.

itemsarray

Returned items value.

source_urlstring

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}