Where do you go for financial research? Yahoo! Finance, Google, Hoovers and Morningstar are just a few sources for investment research, but perhaps you should consider EDGAR.
EDGAR isn’t a finance guru, it’s the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering and Retrieval archives.
The Securities and Exchange Commission requires publicly traded companies to periodically file certain documents, and the archives are kept electronically on EDGAR.
The required filings include:
Form 10-Q – Must be filed each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year. This form contains unaudited financial statements including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flow.
Form 10-K – Must be filed annually. The report contains audited financial statements as well as an overview of …read more

ConAgra Foods, the company that owns the North Carolina Slim Jim plant where there was a recent explosion, said that insurance will likely cover all related costs caused by the disaster. As a result, the company says that the explosion won’t have much of an impact on their financial reports.
In the Slim Jim explosion, there were 41 casualties — 38 injuries and three deaths. Multiple investigations into the disaster indicated that flammable gas released by a contractor likely caused the explosion.
In a filing with the SEC, ConAgra Foods had this to say: “The company maintains comprehensive property and general liability …read more