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Company Lookup

Finance2 credits/cellSheets · Excel
=VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL")
What this pulls

Looks up a public company by its stock ticker and returns its official SEC registration record: legal name, CIK, EIN, SIC industry code, state of incorporation, fiscal year end, phone and business address. Put tickers down a column and fill in whichever details your research or compliance sheet needs.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 2 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

companylookup.xlsxsample data
B2fx=VERVE("companylookup", A2, "field", "count")
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B
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Ticker
Count
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AAPL
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4
click any cell to see its formula2 credits / cell
Ways to use it

Research sheets from a ticker list

Start with a column of tickers and fill legal names, industry codes and headquarters beside them for a screening or coverage sheet.

Get the CIK for filings work

Resolve tickers to CIK numbers so the sheet can link straight to each company's SEC filings.

Vendor and counterparty checks

Pull the legal name, EIN and state of incorporation for public counterparties into an onboarding or compliance sheet.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL")
Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("companylookup", "AAPL")
Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

  • Companies
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies")
  • Companies › Ticker
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.ticker")
  • Companies › Cik
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.cik")
  • Companies › Name
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.name")
  • Companies › Tickers
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.tickers")
  • Companies › Exchanges
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.exchanges")
  • Companies › Entity Type
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.entityType")
  • Companies › Sic
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.sic")
  • Companies › Sic DescriptionPremium
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.sicDescription")
  • Companies › SectorPremium
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.sector")
  • Companies › Category
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.category")
  • Companies › State Of Incorporation
    =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies.0.stateOfIncorporation")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Company Lookup, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I get a company name from a ticker in Excel?
With the ticker in A2: =VERVE.CALL("companylookup", A2, "field", "companies.0.name"). In Google Sheets it's =VERVE("companylookup", A2, "field", "companies.0.name"). AAPL returns "Apple Inc.".
What other details can I pull?
Swap the field for "companies.0.cik" (SEC CIK), "companies.0.ein" (tax ID), "companies.0.sic" (industry code), "companies.0.stateOfIncorporation", "companies.0.fiscalYearEnd", "companies.0.phone" or "companies.0.addresses.business.city". The industry and sector descriptions are included on paid plans.
Where does the data come from?
SEC EDGAR registration records — the same filings data public companies submit to the SEC — so names and identifiers are the official ones, not a scraped approximation.
How do I pull Company Lookup into Google Sheets?
Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("companylookup", "AAPL", "field", "companies") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.
What data can I pull from Company Lookup?
Company Lookup returns companies, companies.0.ticker, companies.0.cik, companies.0.name and companies.0.tickers, plus 5 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.
Which Company Lookup fields need a paid plan?
companies.0.sicDescription and companies.0.sector are included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.
Can I fill a whole column of Company Lookup at once?
Yes. Put your ticker values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.
How many credits does each Company Lookup cell cost?
Each resolved cell costs 2 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.
Does Company Lookup work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?
Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.
Combine it with
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=VERVE("balancesheet", "AAPL", "field", "company")
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BIN Lookup
=VERVE("binlookup", "448590", "field", "brand")
Calculate Income Tax
=VERVE("incometaxcalculator", 85000, 22, "field", "year")
Calculate Loan Payments
=VERVE("loanpaymentcalculator", 32000, 8.5, 6, "field", "downpayment")
Calculate Mortgage Payments
=VERVE("mortgagecalculator", 570000, 6.8, 30, "field", "downpayment")
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