A company files Form 15 to stop reporting to the SEC, which it can do once it has fewer than 300 holders of record, or fewer than 500 in some cases. It typically follows a merger, a take private deal or a delisting, and some small companies use it to go dark.
The suffix says which duty ends: 15-12G and 15-12B terminate registration under Section 12, 15-15D suspends the duty under Section 15(d).
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.