Module 4: Reading Event Filings

The big yearly reports tell you how a company looks once a year. But companies keep living between those reports: bosses change, results land, insiders trade, new shares are born. This module teaches you the forms that carry those events, and ends with you hunting real filings yourself.

1. The 8-K: the something-just-happened form: the short note every company must pin within four business days of big news.
2. The items map: 1.01, 2.02, 5.02, 8.01: read the label on the note before the note itself.
3. The proxy statement DEF 14A: pay, owners and power: the once-a-year booklet showing what bosses earn and who really owns the company.
4. Form 4: when insiders trade their own stock: the two-day confession insiders must file, and the code letters that explain it.
5. New shares being born: S-1s, 424B5s and offerings: how shares are created, why your slice shrinks, and when that is fine.
6. Try it: hunting events with our Filings Search page: a hands-on scavenger hunt across everything this module taught you.

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