Form 8-A registers a class of securities under the Exchange Act: 8-A12B for securities listing on a national exchange and 8-A12G for registration under Section 12(g). Companies file it around an IPO, an uplisting, a spin off or a new class of notes or warrants.
An 8-A12B is often filed the day before the first trade.
Query syntax
Fields: formType, ticker, cik, companyName, filedAt, accessionNo, items (8-K item numbers), sic, state, periodOfReport. Join terms with AND, OR and NOT and group them with parentheses.
- Exact value:
formType:"10-K"(quotes keep the hyphen and spaces) - Any of a list:
ticker:(AAPL, MSFT, NVDA) - Date range:
filedAt:[2026-01-01 TO 2026-06-30] - Prefix:
formType:10-K*also matches 10-K/A and 10-KT - Part of a name:
companyName:"bank of"
Full reference with every field: filing search docs.