Bars over time
Bankruptcy 8-K Filings Each Month
Form 8-K filings reporting a bankruptcy or receivership, all SEC filers, per month
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
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Original Form 8-K filings by every SEC registrant, counted by filing date; amendments are not counted and a filing made jointly by a parent and its subsidiaries counts once. Private companies do not file 8-Ks.
Month by month, the public companies reporting a bankruptcy filing to the SEC. Single months are noisy; a run of high months is the signal.
What this chart reads
- Bankruptcy 8-Ks per Month (SEC, All Filers)as “Bankruptcy 8-Ks”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
Bankruptcy 8-Ks per Month (SEC, All Filers). Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR: the item codes each company lists on its Form 8-K (EDGAR submissions data, https://www.sec.gov/edgar/sec-api-documentation), counted by Palanor. SEC: "Information presented on sec.gov is considered public information and may be copied or further distributed by users of the web site without the SEC's permission."
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