Stock Talk · by Irene López · 2026-09-21

when you open a 10-K, where do you start first?

Trying to improve my process and stop treating filings like vegetables I'm supposed to eat. Curious what section people actually find most useful on first pass.

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Kabir Khan · 21 likes

I start with risk factors and then remind myself lawyers wrote half of civilization's worst paragraphs.

Mariam Said · 17 likes

Financial notes. That's where the bodies are buried, or at least where the boring truth lives.

Lucía García · 6 likes

MD&A first, notes second. Risk factors after so I don't get spooked into uselessness immediately.