The same topics, in company filings
Each row counts the documents in reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that match one written search, week by week, back to 2016. The count says how much companies wrote about a subject, not what they argued, and it does not measure what people think.
These counts are kept apart from the Federal Register counts on Trends and are never added to them. The topics are the same fixed list. This source was added on November 6, 2026.
The latest counts
Through the week of October 26, 2026, retrieved November 6, 2026: ten of seventeen topics pass the test in company filings.
No growing or fading reading is given here, because filings follow the reporting calendar. Compare 52 weeks with the 52 before, which holds every season on both sides.
| Topic | 12 weeks | 52 weeks | Change | Filers | Regions | Weeks held | Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial intelligence | 3,330 | 19,200 | +38% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Data centers | 1,902 | 10,543 | +34% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Quantum computing | 264 | 1,443 | +50% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Unmanned aircraft | 56 | 222 | +171% | 30+ | 4 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Critical minerals | 398 | 1,709 | +68% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Supply chains | 4,887 | 28,990 | +5% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Foreign adversaries | 41 | 347 | +92% | 30+ | 5 | 7 of 12 | Does not pass |
| Critical infrastructure | 558 | 3,395 | +34% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Avian influenza | 32 | 313 | −23% | 23 | 5 | 11 of 12 | Does not pass |
| Measles | 12 | 87 | +24% | 11 | 4 | 7 of 12 | Does not pass |
| Fentanyl | 22 | 188 | +44% | 19 | 4 | 8 of 12 | Does not pass |
| PFAS | 112 | 728 | +14% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Wildfire | 429 | 3,709 | −3% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Small modular reactors | 38 | 261 | +40% | 30+ | 4 | 10 of 12 | Does not pass |
| Digital assets | 1,156 | 5,964 | +52% | 30+ | 5 | 12 of 12 | Passes |
| Misinformation | 55 | 583 | +51% | 30+ | 5 | 11 of 12 | Does not pass |
| Bell to bell | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 of 12 | Does not pass |
What passing means
The test: ten topics pass
A topic passes with a document in each of the latest 12 weeks, 10 or more filers and filers in at least 3 regions. In the latest count: artificial intelligence, data centers, quantum computing, unmanned aircraft, critical minerals, supply chains, critical infrastructure, pfas, wildfire and digital assets.
Macro trends: none
Passing here alone is not a macro trend. Every publisher in this source is a company reporting under one law through one federal system, and most topics clear the numbers easily. A macro trend must also pass in state bills, under Method 1.3. No topic passes in both.
How this is counted
- Source
- SEC EDGAR full-text search, the public search of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Each topic page shows the exact search and a link to run it for the latest window.
- Forms
- Six report forms: 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 20-F, 40-F and 6-K. Amended versions of these forms count too. Fund filings and offering documents are left out, because they repeat the same language across many filers. This list was set after test counts were seen, and it is proposed.
- Unit
- A document, by filing date. A report and each attachment count separately, so one filing can count more than once. In one test week, 324 documents came from 267 filings and 225 filers. This is the number the source’s own page shows.
- Filers
- Each filer is one number in the SEC’s list, with at least one document in the latest 12 weeks. The source names at most 30, so 30+ means at least that many. Filers under one parent company are not folded, so owners can be fewer than filers.
- Regions
- The four US Census regions, and outside the 50 states, by the filer’s principal office. Regions come from the source’s top 30 places, so the count is a floor. This grouping is proposed.
- Season
- Companies file around their reporting dates. Over the last 52 weeks, supply chains ran from 84 to 1,794 documents a week. So the 12-week reading and the micro test, which depend on short rises, are not run on this source.
- The 52-week change
- The latest 52 weeks against the 52 before, with no percentage under 104 documents.
- For scale
- This search gives no total of everything filed, so no share is shown. A topic can rise because more is being filed.
- Wording
- A topic is one wording, and a passing mention counts the same as a whole section. A company with the words in its name matches on its name. Required risk language can repeat from one report to the next.
- Not checked
- Each document is counted as the source returns it. No copy check is run and no item has been audited under stage 2.2. Before this source was added, the phrase was confirmed in 20 of 20 sampled documents.
- Updates
- The stored counts come from a run by hand. The weekly counts of each topic were checked against separate direct searches for the latest 12 weeks before they were stored. A repeat run the same day changed no week, which says nothing yet about later changes.