When it comes to conducting research on your investments, Sec.gov is literally your best friend. I often browse the Edgar database when I need to dig up some research on any public traded companies. If you've ever been afraid of sec.gov, here's a basic tutorial (w/ pictures) on how to find those verbose SEC quarterly filings.
Step 1: Go to SEC.gov
ALL SEC Quarterly filings are listed at sec.gov under the Edgar database.
Step 2: Click Companies and Other Filers
Step 3: Type in Company Name or Ticker of the Publicly Traded Security
In this example, I'm using General Motors (GM).
Step 4: Type in 10-Q and Click Retrieve Selected Filings
Step 5: Click View Reports in HTML
That's it! Please bookmark this tutorial if you found it useful. Thanks!
Tarik Pierce is the founder of InvestorTrip.com and regularly contributes articles to this website.
Tarik recommends Robinhood & Webull for free stock trading, StashInvest for buying fractional shares, Fidelity for setting up your retirement account, and Acorns for automated ETF robo investing.
While living overseas, he uses PureVPN for a low cost VPN service.
He recommends Bluehost for setting up your own personal and/or business blog.
While his background is mostly related to trading stocks, he recently gained interest in real estate crowdfunding with Fundrise.