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cik
SEC Central Index Key — the company's identifier in EDGAR filings.
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At a glance
| Type | text |
| Group | Profile |
| Category | Identifiers & reference |
| Update cadence | post-close daily |
| Universe | all tickers |
| History | none — live row only, not historized (no as-of reads) |
| Nullable | yes — NULL where not applicable |
Which company this is: name, IDs (CIK, FIGI), listing status, contact, branding, employees.
Query it
Every applicable form factor, grouped by endpoint family. Swap YOUR_KEY for the value from /dashboard/keys. Response payloads are real captures, sampled 2026-08-18 and trimmed — your run's values and dates will differ.
Use scan /v2/scan
The whole market through a WHERE clause — this signal composed freely with any other column. Docs →
Live — the whole market, ranked by this column
curl -G "https://api.tickerbot.io/v2/scan" \
--data-urlencode "q=cik IS NOT NULL" \
-d "order=cik" -d "columns=cik" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"Response (sampled 2026-08-18, trimmed)
{
"as_of": "2026-08-18T00:23:10.537Z",
"query": {
"q": "cik IS NOT NULL",
"limit": 2,
"order": "cik",
"dir": "desc",
"fields": [
"cik"
],
"full": false,
"universe": null,
"asset_class": null
},
"count": 2,
"results": [
{
"ticker": "UROY",
"name": "Uranium Royalty Corp. Common Stock",
"asset_class": "stocks",
"asset_type": "CS",
"price": 4.15,
"day_change_pct": 0.0073,
"gap_pct": null,
"relative_volume": 0.6769,
"market_cap": 1569997350,
"cik": "0002143673"
},
{
"ticker": "TBCVU",
"name": "Thunder Bridge Capital Partners V, Ltd. Units",
"asset_class": "stocks",
"asset_type": "UNIT",
"price": 9.9,
"day_change_pct": 0.001,
"gap_pct": 0.001,
"relative_volume": null,
"market_cap": null,
"cik": "0002140030"
}
]
}Same grammar on scan and webhooks. This column is live-tense only — it isn't historized, so ?asof= reads and series pulls don't carry it.