out_sec10k__changelog_company_name

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Changelog table tracking changes in the names each SEC 10-K filer has used.

Most-recent data:

2023

Processing:

Data is ready for use in analyses, but for practical reasons has not been denormalized and remains in narrow format.

Source:

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 10-K

Primary key:

This table has no primary key.

Usage Warnings

  • PUDL does not currently update its copy of this data.

Additional Details

We use the company name reported in association with each name change block in the company information table to fill in the most recent value of company_name_new. Roughly 1,000 reported "name changes" in which the old and new names were identical have been dropped.

Columns
central_index_key

Identifier of the company in SEC database.

name_change_date

Date of last name change of the company.

company_name_old

Name of company prior to name change.

company_name_new

Name of company after name change.