screen_sec_filings

Screen SEC filings across all companies with company-level filters (sector, industry, market cap, exchange) combined with filing-level filters (form type, date range). Returns filings enriched with company metadata: ticker, sector, industry, exchange, market cap, and price.

Use this to answer questions like "find all S-1 filings from biotech companies under $500M market cap" or "show me recent 8-K filings from Technology sector companies". This is the most powerful filing DISCOVERY tool for filings — use search_sec_filings only when you already know the specific CIK.

This tool returns FILINGS, not a company universe: to enumerate or COUNT companies by market cap / price / float (e.g. "find all companies under $300M market cap"), use screen_companies instead — it supports minMarketCapComputed / maxMarketCapComputed and returns a real total COUNT.

Searches only the 500 largest matching companies by market cap (narrow the filters to reach smaller ones); for float, price, company-type, foreign-issuer or recent-IPO filters, full-text queries, or 8-K item codes, use search_sec_filings with its company filters.

Coverage: Signal8's SEC EDGAR archive, updated through the day, in its held range (see archiveFrom in each response; currently from late 2021, expanding back to 2016 as the history backfill fills in). Before archiveFrom it holds only a scatter, so ABSENCE BEFORE archiveFrom IS NOT EVIDENCE a filing was never filed; check SEC EDGAR for earlier periods.

Record-only rows (bodyStored: false) have no stored body; open them at their sec.gov URL.