When a company pays for an acquisition with its own stock, it registers those shares on Form S-4. The S-4 usually doubles as the proxy statement for the target's shareholders, so it contains the deal terms, the background of the merger and both companies' financials.
Foreign acquirers file the equivalent Form F-4.
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.