About and methodology
Short and without fluff: where the numbers come from and what you can trust.
Where the data comes from
Every figure in a diagram or a statement comes from public company filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, that is forms 10-Q and 10-K. The share prices and market caps beside the rankings do not: those are market data, and each says the moment it is true of. We read them two ways. Structured XBRL data straight from the filing comes first; where a company doesn't tag its revenue breakdown that way, we read the table in the statement instead. Every diagram says which of the two was used.
The insider section reads a different set of forms: 3, 4 and 5, which an insider files when their own holding changes. It runs on its own schedule and can be a few days behind the rest of the site; both insider pages say the day their data goes up to. Only open-market purchases and sales are counted as buying and selling. Grants, vestings, tax withholding and gifts are decoded out and shown separately, because counting them as selling is how a headline gets it wrong. Where one filing reports a price no other trade in that company supports, everything worked out from prices is withheld and the page says so; the share counts stay, because they are sound.
What you won't find here
No price targets, no buy or sell recommendations, no forecasts, no stock ratings. We are not a licensed or regulated investment services provider and this site is neither investment advice nor research. It is a visualisation of publicly available numbers.
Limits worth admitting
- Figures are rounded to a tenth of a billion, and to a hundredth only where a statement holds a line small enough to need it and the filing gives us that much precision. So a column can show 4.10 on one page and 4.1 on another, and neither is built for cent-level sums.
- Banks and insurers structure their statements differently; they only partly fit this template.
- The insider section covers the companies whose Forms 3, 4 and 5 we hold; a company that has filed none of them has no page there.
- A company can change how it reports between quarters. We take it as reported.
- Diagrams are generated automatically, so a mistake is always possible.
Who makes this
Finhub Insights is an independent project. Content is generated automatically from public filings, and every diagram is checked against EDGAR and against its own arithmetic before it is published. If you spot a mistake, write to [email protected]. We'll fix it, and it's on us.