SEC electronic filing and retrieval system used to submit, search, and review public-company disclosure documents.
EDGAR is the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system. It is the platform through which public-company filings are submitted and the main place investors and analysts search those filings.
It matters because SEC reporting is only useful if the filings are accessible, searchable, and standardized for public review.
Users rely on EDGAR to:
track amendments and filing dates
search historical disclosure records
review public-company and issuer reporting in one place
SEC filings are the documents.
EDGAR is the system through which those documents are filed and accessed.
SEC Filings: The documents available through EDGAR.
SEC Reporting: The broader reporting process that uses EDGAR for submission.
Form 20-F: One of the filing types users can retrieve in EDGAR.