The most common SEC form types: share of all EDGAR filings, trailing 12 months

Name: The most common SEC form types: share of all EDGAR filings, trailing 12 months
Creator: Strasmore
Published: 2026-08-22
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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 2026-08-22, from The Most Common SEC Filings, Explained by Data.

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The most common SEC form types: share of all EDGAR filings, trailing 12 months — 12 rows by 2 columns, computed 2026-08-22 from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
form_type	pct_of_filings
4	27.9
424B2	14.94
144	5.84
8-K	5.11
NPORT-P	4.16
3	3.51
D	3.11
13F-HR	2.75
SCHEDULE 13G/A	2.72
6-K	2.19
FWP	2.11
D/A	1.77

Rows × columns: 12 × 2
Computed: 2026-08-22
Completeness: No missing values
Source: US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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Formats: JSON · CSV · the SQL below

What each column holds

Column definitions for The most common SEC form types: share of all EDGAR filings, trailing 12 months, derived from the stored result.
Column	Type	Range	Notes
`form_type`	text	12 distinct values (13F-HR, 144, 3…)
`pct_of_filings`	number	1.77 to 27.9	percent

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 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number

SELECT form_type,
       round(100.0 * count() / (SELECT count() FROM global_markets.stocks_sec_edgar_index WHERE filing_date >= today() - INTERVAL 12 MONTH AND filing_date < today()), 2) AS pct_of_filings
FROM global_markets.stocks_sec_edgar_index
WHERE filing_date >= today() - INTERVAL 12 MONTH AND filing_date < today()
GROUP BY form_type
ORDER BY count() DESC
LIMIT 12

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