The most similar public companies to any ticker or CIK — same-industry candidate
The most similar public companies to any ticker or CIK — same-industry candidates ranked by log-scale asset/revenue distance and margin from the full SEC XBRL corpus, each peer row carrying the numbers behind the ranking. One call replaces corpus loading and similarity modeling.
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
316 msmedian answer time
$0.05listed price per call
$0.05price it asked us
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Endpoint
GET https://answerpool.io/v1/peers/similar
| Category | Company and compliance |
|---|---|
| Provider host | answerpool.io |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.05 | 316 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"ticker": "AAPL"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD",
"DELETE"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"cik": {
"anyOf": [
{
"maxLength": 10,
"pattern": "^\\d{1,10}$",
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Cik"
},
"limit": {
"default": 20,
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1,
"title": "Limit",
"type": "integer"
},
"ticker": {
"anyOf": [
{
"maxLength": 12,
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Ticker"
}
},
"title": "PeersIn",
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"as_of": {
"title": "As Of",
"type": "string"
},
"candidates_in_industry": {
"title": "Candidates In Industry",
"type": "integer"
},
"count": {
"title": "Count",
"type": "integer"
},
"disclaimer": {
"default": "Similarity computed from public SEC XBRL facts and industry codes; a peer ranking is an analytical signal, not investment advice.",
"title": "Disclaimer",
"type": "string"
},
"frame_year": {
"title": "Frame Year",
"type": "integer"
},
"method_id": {
"default": "sec_peers_rules_v1",
"title": "Method Id",
"type": "string"
},
"peers": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"assets_usd": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Assets Usd"
},
"cik": {
"title": "Cik",
"type": "string"
},
"distance": {
"title": "Distance",
"type": "number"
},
"margin": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Margin"
},
"name": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Name"
},
"net_income_usd": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Net Income Usd"
},
"revenue_usd": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Revenue Usd"
},
"similarity": {
"title": "Similarity",
"type": "number"
},
"ticker": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Ticker"
}
},
"required": [
"cik",
"ticker",
"name",
"assets_usd",
"revenue_usd",
"net_income_usd",
"margin",
"distance",
"similarity"
],
"title": "PeerRow",
"type": "object"
},
"title": "Peers",
"type": "array"
},
"target": {
"properties": {
"assets_usd": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Assets Usd"
},
"cik": {
"title": "Cik",
"type": "string"
},
"margin": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "number"