Mining Edgar Tender Offers

This paper describes how use the HTMLEditorKit to perform web data mining on EDGAR (Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system). EDGAR is the SEC's (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) means of automating the collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions. Some entities are regulated by the SEC (e.g. publicly traded firms) and are required, by law, to file with the SEC. Our focus is on making use of EDGAR to get information about company offers to purchase stock, known as tender offers. These offers are filed with companies, using their Central Index Key (CIK). The CIK is used on the SEC's computer system to identify corporations and individual people who have filed a disclosure with the SEC. We show how to map a stock ticker symbol into a CIK and how to extract tender offer data. Our example show how we extract the number of shares tendered, the price range for the auction, the honoring of "odd lots" and the initial...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JOT
• Authors: Douglas Lyon
• Keywords: Data Structure, JOT 2008, Tender Offer, Web Data