The long view

Filings containing this phrase, every month since 2008. The last point is the current month and is still filling, so it always looks lower than it will be.

2008 peak 101 in March 2021 2026

Who disclosed it

From SEC full-text search over 8-K filings. Every row links to the filing itself.

Company	Form	Filed
NETFLIX INC NFLX	8-K	2026-07-22	filing
NISSAN AUTO LEASING LLC II	8-K	2026-07-23	filing
Nissan Auto Lease Trust 2026-B	8-K	2026-07-23	filing
Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp MGY	8-K	2026-07-23	filing
Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. DYN	8-K	2026-07-22	filing
Summit Therapeutics Inc. SMMT	8-K	2026-07-23	filing

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How it actually arrives

An 8-K's meaning is in its item number, not its text. These are the items the filings containing this phrase were filed under. The first group is something that happened to the company. The second is the phrase turning up in the ordinary course of reporting, most often in an earnings release, which is a very different thing and is usually the larger number.

Filed because something happened	Companies
Other material event Item 8.01	77
Director or officer departure Item 5.02	12
Delisting or listing rule failure Item 3.01	1

Mentioned in routine reporting	Companies
Financial statements and exhibits Item 9.01	124
Entry into a material agreement Item 1.01	93
Regulation FD disclosure Item 7.01	22
Results of operations, the earnings release Item 2.02	3
Completion of an acquisition Item 2.01	2

This is why a headline count on its own overstates the case. Where the routine number dominates, the phrase is being tracked as language rather than as events.

Which industries file it

Companies grouped by the industry classification on their own filing. A count, not a survey.

Industry		Companies
Chemicals and pharmaceuticals		17
Holding and investment offices		15
Not classified		15
Banking		12
Software and IT services		11
Mining and extraction		10
Electronics and electrical equipment		10
Services and entertainment		6
Industrial machinery		5
Securities and investment		3

What it obligates

No control in the corpus names this term directly. Recorded rather than filled with a guess.

Where this comes from

The left half is public record: SEC full-text search over 8-K filings, counted across a 7 day window against the equivalent window before it. You can check every row.

The right half is ours: 723 frameworks and 20,473 controls, 531 of those frameworks verified against their source documents, with the auditor evidence and common failure modes recorded control by control. Controls appear here because their own text names this term.

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