Activist filings

API Enterprise

Region-wide SEC Schedule 13D and 13G ownership filings over a filed-date window - the same rows as the activist filings feed, restricted to the subject companies listed in the requested region.

Built for enterprise consumers: the response is uncharged (no credits), and every row carries the full instrument-identity block for the subject company's listing, so it can be joined straight onto your own security master.

Available Data Points:

  • Company: The name of the company issuing the security.
  • Ticker: The ticker symbol associated with the security.
  • Operating MIC: The operating Market Identifier Code of the security.
  • MIC: The Market Identifier Code (MIC) for the traded security.
  • ISIN: The International Securities Identification Number for the security.
  • FIGI: The Financial Instrument Global Identifier.
  • Share Class FIGI: The Financial Instrument Global Identifier for the share class.
  • Ortex Company ID: Unique id for a company.
  • Ortex Security ID: Unique id for a security issued by a company.
  • Ortex Tradable item ID: Unique id for a listing of a security.
  • Ortex Tradable item main indicator: Indicates if the trading item is the main trading item for the security.
  • Tradable Item Currency: The currency of the tradable item.
  • Exchange Country: The country location of the exchange.
  • Company / Exchange / Ticker: The subject company of the filing.
  • Filed Date / Event Date: When the filing was made, and the transaction date it discloses.
  • Filing Type: 13D, 13G, amendments (/A), and 13G→13D for a passive holder turning activist.
  • Filer Name / Filer CIK: The reporting person and their stable SEC identifier.
  • Filer Image URL: The filer's portrait or logo, hosted on the ORTEX CDN (empty when none is available).
  • Percent Of Class: The stake disclosed in the filing.
  • Percent Change: The change versus the same filer's prior filing on the same company.
  • Shares Owned: Aggregate shares beneficially owned.
  • SEC URL: The filing's index page on sec.gov.
  • Filer Kind: 'Active', or 'Passive giant' for index-fund mega-managers.

Region, window and filters

Use region to select the universe (a region name, an ISO-2 country code, or ALL; defaults to US). from_date (required) and to_date (defaults to today) bound the filed date; the window may span at most 366 days. filing_type and filer_kind narrow the feed exactly as on the retail endpoint. Schedule 13D/G is a US disclosure regime: each filing is reported against the listing ORTEX resolved its subject company to, so a region holding none of those listings returns an empty result.

Identity and coverage

Filings ORTEX could not match to a listing are not included: a row with no listing has no country to place it in a region by, so the feed is limited to well-mapped issuers. Delisted listings are included, but every row's identity columns (company name, ticker, ISIN and the ORTEX ids) are the listing's current values rather than those it carried on the event's date; ISIN is null where the listing no longer has an active ISIN.

Try it out! You can test the API with the trial key TEST. Simply include it in your request headers; either here, or add the header "Ortex-Api-Key": "TEST" to your http request.

Trial key restrictions: Trial keys may be limited to a specific date range and set of regions. Requests outside the allowed regions or entirely outside the allowed date range are rejected; a date window that partially overlaps the allowed range is trimmed to it, reported in meta.restriction.

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Query Params
string
Defaults to US

Which instruments to return: a region name, a two-character ISO-2 country code, or "ALL" for the whole covered universe. Defaults to "US". An unrecognized value returns 400 invalidRegion.

date
required

Inclusive start of the returned date window. Format: YYYY-MM-DD.

date

Inclusive end of the returned date window (defaults to today). Format: YYYY-MM-DD.

string

Schedule type. Amendments carry the /A suffix. A 13G-to-13D conversion is 13G>13D; rows show it as 13G→13D, and either spelling is accepted. Case-insensitive, and a leading "Schedule " is accepted (Schedule 13D matches 13D).

string

'Active' excludes the passive index-fund mega-managers; 'Passive giant' returns only them.

integer

Page number within the paginated result set. Must be >= 1. Defaults to 1.

integer

Number of rows per page. The default and the maximum allowed depend on the API tier; a value above the tier maximum is rejected with 400 invalidPageSize.

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