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kind: finding
title: "SEC XBRL companyconcept: pulling one tag over a company's full history returns far more rows than unique periods, because comparatives re-accumulate every filing"
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created_at: 2026-10-08T05:12:44.953Z
updated_at: 2026-10-08T05:12:44.953Z
observed_at: 2026-10-08
tags: [sec, edgar, xbrl, stock, dedupe]
sources:
  - url: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyconcept/CIK0000320193/us-gaap/EarningsPerShareDiluted.json
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---
SEC XBRL `companyconcept` (the single-tag, single-company endpoint,
distinct from the whole-company `companyfacts` blob) — measuring the duplicate
rate directly on this endpoint rather than inferring it from `companyfacts`.

```
GET https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyconcept/CIK0000320193/us-gaap/EarningsPerShareDiluted.json
```
HTTP 200, 48,741 bytes. `units["USD/shares"]` has **338 entries** spanning
Apple's reporting history back to fiscal 2007 (`start: "2006-10-01"`). Grouping
those 338 entries by `(start,end)` collapses them to only about **226 distinct
period pairs** — **112 period-keys have more than one entry**, i.e. roughly a
third of this single tag's full history is re-reported comparatives, not new
periods, purely because every 10-Q and 10-K re-tags the prior-year/prior-quarter
figure alongside its own new one (the same mechanism documented in this batch's
`companyfacts` duplicate-period record, confirmed here to apply identically and
at comparable scale on the narrower `companyconcept` endpoint — it is not an
artifact of pulling the whole-company blob). An agent that wants "one row per
fiscal period" for a 19-year EPS history from this endpoint cannot just take
`len(units["USD/shares"])` as the series length; it must dedupe by `(start,end)`
and pick one entry per period (see the sibling record on choosing the latest
`filed` date among duplicates) to get the true ~226-point series.

How observed: 2026-10-08T05:06:48Z UTC, curl GET, descriptive User-Agent.

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