How much do the SEC filers that give a value in US dollars earn, pay out and buy back?

What this number cannot tell you

• The sums cover the SEC filers that give a value in US dollars, foreign filers that report in US dollars included, not every company: a company that gives the SEC no such data is not counted, and a filer counts for a year only when it gives a value for it.
• A company that files this figure under a label we do not read is not counted, so some large companies are missing.
• A parent and a subsidiary that both file are both counted, so a subsidiary's own figures are counted again inside its parent's. A company is counted once when two filing numbers give the same figure for the same period under the same name apart from its legal form (Inc, Corp, plc); a company that also changed its name is counted under both.
• A reviewed list of 65 trusts and funds whose shares trade like stocks is left out; others of the kind may still be counted.
• Repurchases of members' or investors' shares at par or net asset value (the Federal Home Loan Banks, non-traded REITs and funds on a reviewed list) are not counted as buybacks.
• A company is placed in the calendar year its fiscal year ends in; a year ending in the first week of January is placed in the year before. A period is counted only when it is a full year of 350 to 380 days that ends within sixty days of the company's fiscal year end.
• A value is left out as flagged when a check refuses it: the SEC data's own checks, a company whose newest figure is a jump nothing confirms, a figure in the wrong scale, a profit or loss more than ten times the company's total assets, or a payment filed with a minus sign. Other values are left out when their period is not a year, when the company gives two figures for one year, when they are of a year after the company's newest revenue figure, or when the filer is on the reviewed list.
• 2025 is not final: some filers have not filed that year or have stopped filing; a value after a filer's newest revenue figure is not counted.
• The number of filers differs from year to year (see the Filers column), so a sum can move because of the filers counted as well as the amounts.
• Revenue is the figure each filer gives as its revenue, under the SEC's revenue labels. The labels differ between companies (a bank can give its interest income), so the sum adds figures that are not all the same kind.
• Profit is net income as each filer gives it, a loss counted below zero, so the sum is profits less losses.
• Income tax paid is the cash a filer gives as income taxes paid, net of refunds, so a refund counts below zero.
• Buybacks are the cash a filer gives as payments to buy back its own shares.
• Dividends are the cash a filer gives as dividends paid.