Say goodbye to CTRL F in your equity research work

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Manually using CTRL-F to search through a document can quickly become a frustrating and tedious task, especially when you’re dealing with large files or complex topics. Instead of gaining insight efficiently, you find yourself jumping from one keyword to another, trying different variations, and second-guessing what terms might reveal the information you need. This constant back-and-forth interrupts your focus, wastes valuable time, and often leaves you feeling like you’re piecing together fragments rather than seeing the full picture. The process is not only inefficient but also mentally draining, turning what should be a straightforward task into a repetitive chore that hampers productivity and deep analysis.

Searching through financial reports for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) keywords and phrases can be an exhausting and error-prone process. Annual and quarterly filings are often dense, running hundreds of pages, with ESG topics buried in footnotes, appendices, or scattered across different sections. Manually scanning for terms like “carbon emissions,” “diversity,” or “board independence” often means endless CTRL-F searches, trying variations of keywords, and worrying about missing critical context or related terminology. This not only slows down research but also increases the risk of incomplete or inconsistent findings, making it difficult to build a clear, reliable view of a company’s ESG performance or disclosures.  A person tracking their equities on their laptop and mobile device

Searching for accounting discrepancies in financial reports is often a painstaking and time-consuming process. Financial statements are dense with technical language, complex tables, and footnotes that can easily obscure critical details. Analysts must comb through hundreds of pages, manually cross-referencing figures, notes, and disclosures to spot inconsistencies or red flags. This manual approach leaves plenty of room for human error—misreading a number, overlooking a subtle adjustment, or missing a quietly disclosed change in accounting practices.  Unexplained adjustments, changes in filing behaviour, odd auditor behavior or incentive misalignments.

Search10k allows you to browse through pre-entered keywords and keyphrases that revolve around themes and topics that interest you.  It could be revolving around Accounting practices to look for anything in the fine print that would cause doubt in an earnings report.  Or perhaps growth keywords around themes like wearables or ESG (environmental social and governance).  There’s even a way for you to enter all your own keywords into a bucket theme and see what results appear and in the sort order and scoring based on phrase hits or positive or negative sentiment.  See below example involving accounting themed results.

Accounting theme of Search10k - Marathon picked

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