The Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system. All publicly traded domestic companies use EDGAR to make the majority of their filings. Form 10-K or 10-KSB, which include the annual report, is required to be filed on EDGAR. The SEC makes this information available on the Internet. (
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html
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EdgarScan from PricewaterhouseCoopers pulls filings from the SEC's servers and parses them automatically to find key financial tables and normalize financials to a common format that is comparable across companies. Go directly to specific sections of the filing, including the financial statements, footnotes, extracted financial data and computed ratios. A "Benchmarking Assistant" performs company comparisons. (
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