BamSEC is a research platform for reading and searching SEC filings and earnings call transcripts, built for investment professionals, and it's now part of AlphaSense. If you mainly trade small caps and need to know about dilution (warrants, convertible notes, shelf and ATM capacity, float), or you want that data in your own tools through an API, Ask Edgar is built for that job instead.
Published by Ask Edgar. This article describes BamSEC's public product information as of October 2026 and Ask Edgar's documented capabilities.
What BamSEC offers
BamSEC gives you SEC filings and earnings call transcripts in one searchable place. It's designed to make long documents faster to read: finding a table across years of filings, comparing documents, and jumping between related filings for the same company.
Its users are mostly analysts and investors at funds, banks and research firms who read full filings and transcripts across many companies. BamSEC was acquired by Tegus, and Tegus is now part of AlphaSense, so its features may increasingly overlap with AlphaSense's wider research platform. Check BamSEC's site for what's included today.
BamSEC pricing and plans
BamSEC's plans, prices, billing terms and trial options are listed on its own website. We don't repeat them here because they change, and an out-of-date price is worse than none. Since the AlphaSense acquisition, check whether BamSEC is still sold as a standalone plan or as part of an AlphaSense subscription.
Ask Edgar's app plans are on the Ask Edgar pricing page. If you're building with the API, each call is charged by usage, and the API includes a free estimate endpoint so you can check the cost of a query before you run it. See pricing and credits in the API docs.
Where Ask Edgar fits
Ask Edgar is for small-cap traders and the developers who build tools for them. Its focus is the question small-cap traders ask most: how much new stock could hit the market, and when?
- For traders, in the app: look up a ticker and see its warrants, convertible notes, convertible preferred stock, shelf and ATM capacity, and analyst-audited float in one place. Details are on the dilution data page.
- For reading filings faster, in the app: get an AI summary of a filing, or ask questions about one or more filings in a chat.
- For developers, through the API: pull the same dilution, registration and float data into your own watchlists, screeners and research apps. Start with the API quickstart.
If your work is reading full 10-Ks and earnings call transcripts across hundreds of large companies, BamSEC is built for that. Ask Edgar is the better fit when you need the dilution picture on a small cap fast, or want that data in code.
Compare the same task: checking a small cap for dilution risk
Say a small-cap stock is running and you want to know how much new stock could be sold into the move.
In a filings platform like BamSEC: open the company's recent filings, find the shelf registration and any prospectus supplements, then read through for warrants, convertible notes and ATM agreements. You add up what's still outstanding yourself. That works, and full-text search makes it faster than EDGAR, but on a company with years of financings it can take a while.
In the Ask Edgar app: look up the ticker. Warrants, convertibles, shelf and ATM capacity, and float are listed together, with each instrument labelled by type and how much of it remains.
Through the Ask Edgar API: request the dilution data for the ticker. Every instrument comes back with its type, including ones already exercised, so you filter on what's remaining. That's the starting point for an alert or screener of your own.
The other direction is just as real. If the task is reading a large company's full annual report or a year of earnings calls, a filings and transcripts platform like BamSEC is the tool for it.
FAQ
Is there a free alternative to BamSEC? The SEC's own EDGAR full-text search is free and covers every public filing, though you do all the reading and adding up yourself. For a broader look at free filing tools, see "CapEdge Review: Free Access to SEC Filings and Ownership Data".
Does Ask Edgar replace BamSEC? For some people. If you trade small caps and mostly need the dilution picture, Ask Edgar covers that directly. If you read full filings and transcripts across many large companies, BamSEC does a different job.
Does Ask Edgar have an API? Yes. The Ask Edgar API returns dilution, registration and float data as JSON, and the docs show how to make your first call.
How does Ask Edgar compare with Dilution Tracker? See "Dilution Tracker vs AskEdgar for traders and builders" for a side-by-side.
Start building
Look up any small-cap ticker in the Ask Edgar app, or pull the same data into your own tools with the Ask Edgar API.