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Shelf Offerings

Hello friends. Today’s post will briefly discuss shelf offerings. A shelf offering (or shelf registration) is not an actual offering (or issuance) of equity (stock) securities or debt securities. Rather it is a registration of securities with the SEC that allows a company to issue securities covered by the filing at any time over the three years following the filing. This permits a company to raise capital at opportune times as the securities are already registered for issuance. […]

September 29th, 2018|SEC filings, shelf offerings|2 Comments

The 8-K

Hi friends. An 8-K is an SEC filing required by companies with regard to announcing material events. The 8-K must be filed within four business days of the material event. You can read this to learn more about the 8-K. […]

June 23rd, 2018|8-K, SEC filings|0 Comments

Insider Trade Filings

Hey friends. To research corporate financial filings, you can go to the primary source, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website. Today, I’ll write about insider trading activity information filed with the SEC. […]

June 8th, 2018|insider trading, SEC filings|2 Comments

Two Income Reports?

Since April 15 has come and gone for another year, I thought a post related to taxes was fitting today. Did you know that corporations file two income reports? […]

April 17th, 2015|GAAP, SEC filings|0 Comments

Form 8-Ks

Two weeks ago I wrote about a type of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, namely the Form 4 used for informing the SEC (and, in turn, investors) of insider transactions in their company’s stock. I intended to write about SEC Form 8-Ks a week ago, but instead decided to present a brief video where I could thank you for your support of my “Choose Stocks Wisely” effort in a more personal way than via the written word. I do wish to say thank you once again today via this written post for all your support.

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July 26th, 2014|material events, SEC filings|0 Comments

Form 4s

This week and next, I’ll briefly discuss a couple of important types of filings required of companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Today, I’ll mention the form 4 filing. […]

July 12th, 2014|insider trading, SEC filings|0 Comments