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Which 10-K sections get captured, and how long they run

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-10-09, from How to Read a 10-K Annual Report Filing.

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Which 10-K sections get captured, and how long they run — 3 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
sectionfiling_countcompany_countavg_thousand_characters
business4970162546.5
risk_factors4957162169.9
mda19419455.1
Rows × columns
3 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Which 10-K sections get captured, and how long they run, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
section text 3 distinct values (business, mda, risk_factors)
filing_count number 194 to 4,970 count
company_count number 194 to 1,625 count
avg_thousand_characters number 46.5 to 69.9

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

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SELECT
    section                                  AS section,
    uniqExact(cik, period_end)               AS filing_count,
    uniqExact(cik)                           AS company_count,
    round(avg(length(text)) / 1000.0, 1)     AS avg_thousand_characters
FROM global_markets.stocks_10k_sections
WHERE period_end >= '2020-01-01'
  AND section != ''
  AND length(text) > 0
GROUP BY section
ORDER BY filing_count DESC
LIMIT 12
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