With your computer online, go to sec.gov(Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.). This is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissions website.
At the website, click on Search for Company Filings(its in the Filings and Forms section). That will take you to the Search the Next-Generation EDGAR System page.
At the Search the EDGAR System page, click on Company or fund name, ticker symbol, CIK (Central Index Key), file number, state, country, or SIC (Standard Industrial Classification).This will take you to the Company Search page.
At the Company Search page, enter the name of your company in the box.Select Starts with or Contains as needed. Leave the other boxes blank. When you are done, click the Find Companies button at the bottom.
A list of companies matching the name you typed in will appear. The list may be short or long, depending on how many companies share the same words in their company names. Scroll down the list and locate the specific company you are interested in (you may have to go through several pages if the list is really long.) When you find your company, click the long red number in the left hand column next to the company name. This will bring up a Search Results page with a list of forms on it. Important Note:if there is only one company matching the name you typed in, the system will take you directly to the forms page. See the next paragraph.
On the forms page, scroll down the left hand column until you find an entry marked 10-K. These forms are the companys annual report.
Note: you will normally find more than one 10-K Form listed, because the companies file one for each year. The one you want is the one with the latest date. Check the date of the form in the Filing Date column on the right.
Note: you can shorten the forms search process by entering 10-K in the Filing Type: window. Then scroll over to the right and click the Search The list of forms at the bottom of the page will then adjust to contain only 10-K forms.
When you have located the 10-K form that you want, click the Documents button for that form. This will take you to a Filing Detail page that contains a list of things that are in the 10-K report. You will normally want the first entry, which, in the Document column, will be identified with something like htm. Click the red entry in the Document column to take you to the form.
At this point you can print the entire report (100+ pages!) or you can scroll down through the document to locate the part you are interested in. When you find it, simply highlight it with your mouse, and copy and paste it into a Word document for your review later on. Be careful here! Do not just paste information from the form into your report unless you enclose the text in quotes and insert a footnote saying where you obtained it.
