Methodology: How Our Figures Are Selected
This page explains, in full, how the figures on Company Financials Data are produced, so that any reader can reproduce or challenge them. The short version: everything comes from one public dataset, annual filings only, most recent fiscal year per measure, with one clearly labelled calculated figure. The detail follows.
The dataset: SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts
Companies listed in the United States file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission through its EDGAR system, and tag the numbers in those reports using XBRL, a standard machine-readable labelling system. The SEC republishes every tagged value through its company facts API, organised by company and by concept — revenue, net income, total assets and hundreds of others. That API is our sole data source. No figures are bought from aggregators, scraped from news reports or typed in from press releases, and no market data of any kind is used: this site publishes filing data only, as retrieved in October 2026.
Selection rules
Four rules govern which filed value appears. First, annual only: we use values from Form 10-K annual reports with a full-year duration, never quarterly figures, so every number represents a complete fiscal year. Second, most recent: for each measure we show the latest fiscal year the company has filed, and where a multi-year table is shown we include up to six recent fiscal years. Third, latest filing wins: where a company has restated a year in a later filing, the most recently filed value is used, because that is the company's own corrected record. Fourth, sibling concepts: companies tag revenue under several closely related standard concepts, so we check them in a fixed order and use the first that carries annual 10-K values, recording the same order for every company so the treatment is uniform.
Calculated figures
One headline figure is calculated rather than reported: free cash flow, defined as net cash provided by operating activities minus payments to acquire property, plant and equipment, for the same fiscal year. Net profit margin in the rankings is likewise net income divided by revenue. Both are labelled as calculated wherever they appear. Nothing else is derived: we publish no estimates, no forecasts, no adjusted or non-GAAP versions of company figures, and no figures at all for a measure a company did not report — the honest gap is left visible.
Limits of the data
Tagging is performed by filers and varies in quality; banks, insurers and foreign private issuers often report under frameworks whose concepts do not map cleanly onto the standard set, which is why some well-known companies have fewer measures on their pages or do not appear in a given ranking. Fiscal years differ between companies, so cross-company comparisons always pair a figure with its fiscal year. And filings are living documents: companies amend and restate them, so a figure here is a faithful record of what was filed as at our retrieval date, with the original EDGAR filing remaining the authoritative source at all times.