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SEC 8-K Material Event Monitor: M&A, Leadership, Earnings and Restatements

Turn raw SEC 8-K filings into classified, materiality-scored corporate events for any US ticker watchlist. This Actor reads each company's official 8-K disclosures, translates the cryptic SEC item codes into plain-English categories, and assigns a materiality score (0-100) so you can instantly separate market-moving events from routine paperwork. Give it a list of tickers and get back a clean, structured feed of SEC 8-K material events - M&A, leadership changes, earnings, restatements, bankruptcy and more - ready for screening, monitoring and automation.

A US public company must file an 8-K within four business days of a material corporate event. This monitor tracks those filings across your whole watchlist so you can see what changed, when, and how important it is.

Why this is different

Most SEC monitors hand you a raw list of filings and leave the interpretation to you. This Actor adds the value layer that raw filing lists are missing:

• Item-code classification. It maps SEC 8-K item codes (1.01, 4.02, 5.02 and more) to readable categories such as "Entry into material agreement / deal", "Non-reliance / restatement of financials" and "Departure/appointment of directors or officers".
• Materiality score (0-100). Each item code carries a transparent score. Bankruptcy (1.03) and restatements (4.02) rank at 95, control changes and delistings at 90, M&A completions at 75, while routine exhibits (9.01) score 10.
• High-impact flagging. Every company result includes a high_materiality_count (events scoring 70 or higher), so a single number tells you whether the company had anything serious going on.
• Multi-company watchlist. Scan a whole portfolio of tickers in one run instead of checking filings one company at a time.
• Verifiable by design. Every event includes a direct url to the filing index on SEC EDGAR, so you can audit any classification against the primary source.

Who it's for

• Traders and quants who need a same-day signal feed of earnings, M&A, exec departures and other catalysts across a basket of names.
• Fintech and research apps that want classified corporate events as a structured input rather than scraped HTML.
• Research, risk and IR teams tracking material disclosures across a coverage list or peer group.

Use cases

• Catalyst screening. Run a watchlist every morning and surface only events scoring 70+ to find the names with real news.
• M&A and deal monitoring. Track item 1.01 (material agreements) and 2.01 (completed acquisitions/dispositions) across an industry peer set.
• Restatement and audit-risk flags. Watch for item 4.02 (non-reliance / restatement) and 4.01 (auditor change) on positions you hold.
• Leadership-change tracking. Catch item 5.02 (director/officer departures and appointments) and 5.01 (changes in control) as they are disclosed.
• Pipeline input for agents and dashboards. Feed the classified JSON into an LLM agent, a Slack alert, or an internal dashboard that summarizes daily corporate events.

Input

You enter tickers (the Actor resolves each ticker to its SEC CIK for you). You can also pass CIK numbers directly.

Output

The Actor pushes one dataset item per company. Each item carries the company identity, a high_materiality_count, and an events array. Each event has its filing date, a plain-English headline, a max_materiality score, the underlying classified items, the accession number and a direct url to the filing on SEC EDGAR.

{
"type":"company_8k",
"ticker":"TSLA",
"name":"Tesla, Inc.",
"cik":"1318605",
"high_materiality_count":2,
"events":[
{
"date":"2026-01-29",
"headline":"Results of operations (earnings)",
"max_materiality":60,
"items":[
{"item":"2.02","category":"Results of operations (earnings)","materiality":60},
{"item":"9.01","category":"Financial statements and exhibits","materiality":10}
],
"accession":"0001628280-26-000123",
"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828026000123/0001628280-26-000123-index.htm"
},
{
"date":"2026-01-15",
"headline":"Departure/appointment of directors or officers",
"max_materiality":70,
"items":[
{"item":"5.02","category":"Departure/appointment of directors or officers","materiality":70}
],
"accession":"0001628280-26-000087",
"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828026000087/0001628280-26-000087-index.htm"
}
]
}

How materiality scoring works

Scoring is fully transparent and lives in a single lookup table from SEC 8-K item code to category and score. An 8-K can carry several item codes at once; the Actor classifies each code, then sets the event's max_materiality to the highest score among them. A company's high_materiality_count is the number of its events that score 70 or higher.

Representative scores from the mapping:

• 95 - Bankruptcy or receivership (1.03); Non-reliance / restatement of financials (4.02)
• 90 - Delisting / listing-rule failure (3.01); Changes in control of registrant (5.01)
• 75 - Completion of acquisition/disposition (2.01); Change in registrant's accountant (4.01)
• 70 - Entry into material agreement / deal (1.01); Triggering of debt acceleration (2.04); Departure/appointment of directors or officers (5.02)
• 60 - Results of operations / earnings (2.02); Termination of material agreement (1.02)
• 25-30 - Regulation FD disclosure (7.01); Other events (8.01); bylaw and fiscal-year amendments (5.03)
• 10 - Financial statements and exhibits (9.01)

Any item code not in the table is labeled "Other / unmapped item" and scored 20, so nothing is silently dropped.

Use with AI agents and automation

The Actor returns clean, structured JSON, which makes it easy to plug into agent frameworks and no-code automation:

• LLM agent tools. Call it from LangChain or LlamaIndex as a tool that returns classified corporate events for any ticker.
• Apify MCP server. Expose the Actor through the Apify MCP server so assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can run it directly and read the results.
• No-code automation. Trigger runs from Zapier or Make and route high-materiality events into Slack, email or a spreadsheet.
• Webhooks and scheduling. Use Apify webhooks to push new results downstream, and run on demand or on a schedule to keep a watchlist current.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: one charge per company analyzed. There is no subscription. A 10-ticker watchlist is 10 charges, so you pay only for the companies you actually scan. Tickers that cannot be resolved to a CIK are skipped and are not charged.

Data source and compliance

All data comes from the official SEC EDGAR submissions API (data.sec.gov), which exposes each filing's 8-K item codes directly. This avoids fragile document scraping and keeps results stable and fast. The data is public regulatory filing information published by the SEC. The Actor processes corporate event metadata only and handles no personal data.

FAQ

How soon after a filing does an event appear? 8-Ks show up on EDGAR within minutes of submission. Run the Actor on a schedule to catch new events the same day.

Do I need to look up CIK numbers? No. Enter the ticker and the Actor resolves it to the correct SEC CIK automatically. You can still pass a CIK directly if you prefer.

Can an AI agent call this automatically? Yes. Expose the Actor through the Apify MCP server and an assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can run it and read the classified events on demand.

What does the materiality score mean? It is a transparent 0-100 ranking of how impactful an 8-K item code tends to be, from bankruptcy and restatements at the top to routine exhibits at the bottom. It is a triage signal, not a prediction.

How do I get only the important events? Set minMateriality to 70 to return only high-impact events such as M&A, control changes, restatements and bankruptcy.

Can I verify a classification? Yes. Every event includes the filing accession number and a direct url to the filing index on SEC EDGAR.

Keywords: SEC 8-K, 8-K material events, M&A monitor, corporate events, earnings, executive change, restatement, bankruptcy, delisting, EDGAR submissions API, materiality score, corporate events API, trading catalysts, ticker watchlist monitor.

Note: Provided as data for research, screening and monitoring. This is not investment advice. Historical patterns do not guarantee future results.