# AnswerPool SEC XBRL Growth Metrics

> AnswerPool SEC XBRL Growth Metrics is a paid API for AI agents from answerpool.io, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns structured JSON with historical revenue, net income, and asset growth rates (1Y, 3Y CAGR, 5Y CAGR) computed from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings for any public US company

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/xbrl/growth
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/answerpool-sec-xbrl-growth-metrics-bbd2720b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lhEX0-d2HyK_YvbZoUOir

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability answerpool-sec-xbrl-growth-metrics-bbd2720b
```

Example prompt: What's NVIDIA's revenue growth rate — give me the 1-year, 3-year CAGR, and 5-year CAGR from SEC XBRL filings, and also pull in net income and total assets growth.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need pre-computed, structured financial growth metrics (CAGR, year-over-year growth) derived directly from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings without having to parse raw filings yourself. Prefer this over raw EDGAR APIs when you want clean JSON with deduplicated annual data points, computed percentage changes, and provenance metadata in a single call. Best for investment research, financial screening, and any agent workflow that needs growth trend data for US public companies quickly and cheaply at $0.05 per call.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown ticker returns HTTP 422 with an error indicating the ticker was not found in the EDGAR ticker map
- Providing neither cik nor ticker, or providing both simultaneously, returns a validation error
- Insufficient XBRL filing history causes CAGR fields to be null rather than populated
- A company with no XBRL data for a requested metric returns it in the unavailable array
- Network or upstream EDGAR service outage may cause delayed or failed responses
- Invalid metric name in the metrics parameter results in it appearing in the unavailable list

## How this service works

AnswerPool turns SEC EDGAR, the Federal Register, USAspending, NIH, BLS and OpenAlex into structured JSON answers that AI agents and developers fetch in one call. 69 endpoints free, no account; derived analyses $0.02–$0.05 per call by card credits or USDC (x402). MCP server, full provenance.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing per-metric growth data including the latest filed value, 1-year growth percentage, 3-year CAGR, 5-year CAGR, number of years covered, annual data points with period-end dates and year-over-year change percentages, the XBRL tag used, unit (USD), and metadata including the CIK, computation method, as-of timestamp, and a disclaimer. Unavailable metrics are listed separately.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "title": "GrowthIn",
     "properties": {
      "cik": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string",
         "pattern": "^\\d{1,10}$",
         "maxLength": 10
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ],
       "title": "Cik",
       "default": null,
       "description": "SEC CIK, 1-10 digits, zero padding optional (e.g. 320193 or 0000320193). Provide exactly one of cik or ticker."
      },
      "ticker": {
       "anyOf": [
        {
         "type": "string",
         "maxLength": 12
        },
        {
         "type": "null"
        }
       ],
       "title": "Ticker",
       "default": null,
       "description": "US exchange ticker, case-insensitive (e.g. AAPL); resolved through the EDGAR ticker map, and an unknown ticker returns 422. Provide exactly one of ticker or cik."
      },
      "metrics": {
       "type": "string",
       "title": "Metrics",
       "default": "revenue,net_income,total_assets",
       "maxLength": 200,
       "description": "Comma-separated metric names from /v1/sec/xbrl/metrics"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "cik": "0001045810",
  "note": "Annual (10-K) XBRL points only, deduplicated per fiscal year end; CAGR needs the full span or it is null. Reported figures as filed, not restated.",
  "as_of": "2026-09-03T14:00:00Z",
  "method": "sec_xbrl_growth_rules_v1",
  "metrics": [
   {
    "tag": "RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax",
    "unit": "USD",
    "metric": "revenue",
    "cagr_3y_pct": 69.4,
    "cagr_5y_pct": 55.1,
    "latest_value": 130497000000,
    "annual_points": [
     {
      "value": 130497000000,
      "change_pct": 114.2,
      "period_end": "2025-01-26"
     }
    ],
    "growth_1y_pct": 114.2,
    "years_covered": 6,
    "latest_period_end": "2025-01-26"
   }
  ],
  "disclaimer": "Derived from public SEC EDGAR filings; not investment advice.",
  "unavailable": []
 }
}
```

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