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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States.

EDGAR Online was an American public company specializing in financial data.

Located in Norwalk, Connecticut, it takes its name from the EDGAR database of the country's Securities and Exchange Commission, through which public financial data for filing companies can be accessed.

The Standard Industrial Classification SIC is a system for classifying industries by a four-digit code.

Established in the United States in 1937, it is used by government agencies to classify industry areas.

The SIC system is also used by agencies in other countries, e.g., by the United Kingdom's Companies House.

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company usually are sold to institutional investors that in turn, sell to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time.

Through this process, a privately held company transforms into a public company.

Initial public offerings are mostly used by companies to raise the expansion of capital, possibly to monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises.

A company selling shares is never required to repay the capital to its public investors.

After the IPO, when shares trade freely in the open market, money passes between public investors.

Although IPO offers many advantages, there are also significant disadvantages, chief among these are the costs associated with the process and the requirement to disclose certain information that could prove helpful to competitors.

The IPO process is colloquially known as going public.

A SEC filing is a financial statement or other formal document submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Public companies, certain insiders, and broker-dealers are required to make regular SEC filings.

Investors and financial professionals rely on these filings for information about companies they are evaluating for investment purposes.

Many, but not all SEC filings are available online through the SEC's EDGAR database.