Cite & reuse

Use our data — no permission needed.

Linking, quoting, and screenshotting OpenCapital is free and encouraged. Here’s how to do it well — and the couple of cases worth a quick email first.

The short version

OpenCapital is a free public reference for what every U.S. public company actually reports, parsed from the filings they’re required to publish. If you write a newsletter, a blog, a research note, or a Reddit comment, you are welcome to link to us, quote our numbers, and screenshot our charts — for free, without asking. The data is public. We just packaged it.

All we ask is a visible credit and a link back to the page you used, so your readers can check the source and find the rest. That’s it.

Linking to a page

Link to any page on opencapital.sh freely — company profiles, metric pages, earnings pages, segment breakdowns. A plain, clickable link is exactly right. Deep links help most: if you’re writing about a specific number, link to the page that shows it rather than the homepage.

One technical note, only if you run a website: please link to us with a normal, “followed” link. Some publishers automatically add a nofollowtag to their outbound links, which tells search engines to ignore the link for ranking — quietly withholding the small bit of search credit a plain link passes to the source. A regular followed link is the more generous choice, and it’s all we’d ask. (If none of this is familiar, don’t worry — a normal link already does the right thing.)

Quoting a number

Quote any figure you find on OpenCapital. Because every number we show is traceable back to a specific SEC filing, the most useful thing you can do for your readers is credit both: the number came from the filing, and OpenCapital is where it’s readable. A simple format:

NVIDIA reported $35.1B in data-center revenue last quarter (source: company 10-Q via OpenCapital).

Screenshots & charts

Screenshot any chart or table and use it, as long as the OpenCapital mark stays visible in the image and you link back to the page it came from. Don’t crop out the attribution or re-skin the chart as your own.

Want a live, always-current chart embedded in your post instead of a static screenshot? Embeddable charts are on the way — if that’s something you’d use, tell us and we’ll let you know when they ship.

How to attribute us

Any of these work. The only requirement is that the credit is visible and the link points back to the page you used.

  • Inline:“…per OpenCapital” with a link on the name.
  • Caption:“Source: SEC filings via OpenCapital” under a chart or table.
  • Footer / credits:“Financial data from OpenCapital (opencapital.sh)”.

A ready-to-paste HTML credit:

Source: SEC filings via <a href="https://www.opencapital.sh">OpenCapital</a>

When it needs a quick conversation

Linking, quoting, and screenshotting are always free. A couple of things are different and worth a short email first:

  • Pulling the data into your own product.If you want to ingest our structured numbers into a database, app, or newsletter-automation pipeline and present them as your own feature, that’s data licensing — handled one at a time, personally, with simple terms.
  • Republishing whole pages on your own domain. Please don’t copy a full OpenCapital page verbatim onto your site. Beyond the courtesy, it creates duplicate content that competes with the original in search — which is worse for both of us. Quote the part you need and link back instead; that sends readers (and credit) to the source, where the rest of the data lives.

Either of those, or anything you’re unsure about, just email support@opencapital.sh — a real person reads it.

For newsletters, writers & educators

You’re exactly who this page is for. If you cover earnings, break down a company, or teach people how to read financials, OpenCapital is free for you to draw on as often as you like. Quote a number, drop in a chart, link to the profile so your readers can dig further. No deal to sign, no attribution fee, no catch — the site stays free for everyone, and a credited link back is all we ask in return.

Questions about citing or reuse?

Anything about attribution, licensing, or reuse — a real person reads every email.

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