How to get an alert when a company publishes its annual or sustainability report

Companies publish their reports on their own schedule and on their own websites, usually as a PDF added to a reports page without any announcement. Checking those pages by hand works for a handful of companies. For more, you need to be told. These are the ways to be told, what each one catches, and when it is the right choice.

1. The company's own email alerts

Many investor relations websites let you subscribe to press releases, results and regulatory filings. The alert comes from the source, is free and often arrives the same day. You sign up once per company, though, and the alerts are mostly about news and results: an annual report may be announced, a sustainability report often is not.

2. Filing feeds from regulators

Reports a company is required to file appear in the regulator's system first. In the United States, SEC EDGAR is free and offers a feed of each company's filings (10-K, 10-Q, 20-F and the rest) that a feed reader can follow. Other countries have their own systems, such as the UK's National Storage Mechanism and Japan's EDINET; whether they offer alerts varies. Voluntary reports, which include most sustainability reports, are not filed there.

3. Website change monitors

Tools such as Visualping, Distill and changedetection.io load a web page on a schedule and tell you when it changes. Pointed at a company's reports page, they will usually tell you within hours that something was added. Each page needs its own monitor; any change sets it off (a new banner counts as much as a new report); a redesign or a moved page can quietly end it; and the alert says the page changed, not which report appeared, for which year, or whether it is the document you wanted.

4. Google Alerts

Google Alerts emails you when Google finds new pages matching a search, for example the company's name with “sustainability report 2025”. It is free and good at news coverage of a report. It is weaker on the document itself: a PDF added to a company's website may reach you late or not at all, and the alert cannot tell the company's own report from articles that mention it.

5. A report tracker

A tracker follows the reports rather than the pages. In Report Scout you choose the companies and the report types (annual reports, 10-Ks, sustainability and ESG reports, and others). Each company is checked about once a month until its next report is found, then around the time it is due. Each document is downloaded and read before it is listed, to confirm the company, the type and the year, and new reports reach you in one email, weekly on Mondays or monthly. Following up to 25 companies is free (annual reports, 10-Ks, sustainability and ESG reports); the Professional plan covers up to 500 companies and every report type for $49 a month. It is not instant: a new report reaches you with the next email, not within the hour.

Which one to use

The methods combine well: a tracker for the companies you follow, a change monitor or the company's own alerts for the one or two where a day matters. How Report Scout finds, checks and dates reports is described on the methodology page, and you can start with 25 companies free.

Examples on Report Scout

Companies whose sustainability reports Report Scout holds, those with the most reports first. Each page lists the documents by year, with links to the originals. All of them: sustainability reports on Report Scout.

• Fluor
• Naturgy Energy Group
• Ameren
• Cemig
• Compal Electronics
• Daiwa House Industry Co
• E.Sun Financial
• Freeport-McMoRan Copper

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• What is a Universal Registration Document (URD)?
• How to find a company's sustainability report
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How Report Scout finds, checks and dates the reports it lists is described on the methodology page.