| XBRL is the format the SEC (security and exchange commission, the government "accountants of last resort" that check publicly traded companies). This means there's regular XBRL files (every quarter) for every large publicly traded US company. Here's Google's latest: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/documents/xbrl-alphabet-2018... Please do keep in mind that this is a sort of XML key-value database with a number of keys standardized, and some level of rules defined that say "if a bank lends Volkswagen money and it uses 12% of that money to Google to run ads with a repo clause, you enter add A to value X and B to value Y". In other words, there's rules that define how complex financial data is entered into those standardized values. To find those rules, there's a SEC textbook that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, nothing about that in the files themselves. There's a large directory at the SEC with the quarterly XBRLs for all US publicly traded companies. Used to be accessible over FTP until a little over a year ago. Here it is: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/ XBRL files exist for all forms to be filed with the SEC. The ones you probably want are the 10-Q and 10-K ones (q = quarterly, k = no idea, but somehow means yearly) (of course there's an entire industry of accountants essentially about hacking those rules, and therefore the meaning of those files. So let me give you a free quick 5 year experience in financial analysis: search for "GAAP vs non-GAAP", read 2 articles, decide the conspiracy theorists are less informative than the government, and just believe the SEC is at least trying. That doesn't mean nobody's lying, but GAAP vs non-GAAP is generally not what they're lying about) |