The exact SEC CIK for a given ticker or company name, allowing subsequent accurate queries of EDGAR filings and financial data.
The agent takes a company ticker or name and calls the /v1/sec/cik lookup endpoint. It checks the response for the zero-padded CIK and registered name. This step is crucial before making other SEC-related calls to ensure data accuracy and avoid parsing errors associated with manual ticker files.
- Category: Finance and payments
- Effect: Read-only
- MCP servers: AnswerPool MCP (https://koskamo.com/explore/answerpool-mcp)
- Source: AnswerPool — cross-corpus answers from public data, scored in public (https://answerpool.io/)
- Source quote: "Resolve a ticker or company name to its SEC CIK — returns zero-padded CIK, ticker and registered name from the SEC's official mapping."
- Playbook page: https://koskamo.com/explore/use-cases/resolve-ticker-to-sec-cik-for-filings
Prompt: What is the SEC CIK for NVIDIA?