SIC Constituents API: SIC industry code in, the registrants filing under it out (CIK + name + — free lookup
SIC industry code in, the registrants filing under it out (CIK + name + ticker). Turns an industry into a company list in one call instead of paging EDGAR's company search. Free, no key.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/companies-by-sic — product id
sec_companies_by_sic. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_companies_by_sic.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/companies-by-sic?sic=7372"
Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/companies-by-sic?sic=7372 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_companies_by_sic
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_companies_by_sic.
as_of | 2026-09-03T14:00:00Z |
|---|---|
sic | 7372 |
count | 1 |
note | Registrants filing 10-K under this SIC code, per EDGAR company search. Names and tickers are filled from the SEC ticker file, so unlisted filers show cik only. |
disclaimer | Derived from public SEC EDGAR filings; not investment advice. |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
companies
| cik | name | ticker |
|---|---|---|
| 0000789019 | MICROSOFT CORP | MSFT |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-09-03T14:00:00Z",
"sic": 7372,
"count": 1,
"companies": [
{
"cik": "0000789019",
"name": "MICROSOFT CORP",
"ticker": "MSFT"
}
],
"note": "Registrants filing 10-K under this SIC code, per EDGAR company search. Names and tickers are filled from the SEC ticker file, so unlisted filers show cik only.",
"disclaimer": "Derived from public SEC EDGAR filings; not investment advice.",
"refresh_after": "2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z"
}How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?
The fastest source behind this answer can change every 15 minutes, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.
- SEC EDGAR (US federal public domain) — upstream:
https://efts.sec.gov
Method version 0.1.0 ·
serving cache 1 day ·
every response carries a result_id you can resolve at
/v1/provenance.
When should you use it?
You have a SIC code (or got one from /v1/sec/sic) and need its companies.
What you skip building
- EDGAR company-search pagination
- broken Atom name fields
When should you not use it?
Quantitative comparables — /v1/peers/similar ranks by XBRL similarity.
Where else can you find this?
- Catalog entry (JSON, free)
- OpenAPI schema — input and output types, prices, the 402 flow
- llms.txt — every product in one plain-text document