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CAD: Brazil Company Registration Information at CVM

CAD (Informação Cadastral / Cadastro de Companhias Abertas) is CVM's company registration filing — structured issuer identity and cadastral updates, not full financial statements or the annual reference narrative. Developers searching for CAD CVM usually need legal name, CNPJ, tickers, or corporate structure fields.

apicvm does not ingest CAD today. This page explains what CAD is, when issuers file it, and which API paths cover the same practical needs: company resolve for identity and FRE for narrative context.

What is CAD?

CAD is part of the Empresas.Net filing family alongside FRE, DFP, and ITR. Where DFP and ITR carry audited financials and FRE carries the annual reference form (Formulário de Referência), CAD focuses on registration and cadastral maintenance with CVM.

Typical CAD-style fields include:

  • Legal name and CNPJ
  • Headquarters and contact information
  • Share classes and listed tickers
  • Corporate structure updates (officers, capital changes)
  • Registration events tied to listing status

Exact section names vary by filing generation. Treat the original CVM PDF as source of truth when cadastral detail is material.

When companies file CAD

Issuers submit or update CAD around registration events and structural changes — for example:

  • Initial public offering or new listing registration
  • Changes to corporate name, address, or share structure
  • Updates to officers or capital structure required by CVM rules

CAD is event-driven cadastral maintenance, not the quarterly earnings cycle (ITR) or the annual financial package (DFP).

CAD vs FRE vs DFP/ITR

Filing Primary role Typical use
CAD Registration / cadastral updates Issuer identity, listing metadata
FRE Annual reference form Business description, risks, governance, related parties
DFP Annual financial statements Audited balance sheet, income, cash flow
ITR Quarterly financial information Interim results between DFP cycles

FRE overlaps partially with CAD on company description and governance, but FRE is the deep annual narrative. CAD is the lighter registration layer.

Is CAD available in apicvm?

No — CAD is not in the apicvm MVP corpus. Supported document types for listing and download are DFP, ITR, and FRE only. Do not call GET /v1/documents?type=CAD; that filter is not a supported product path.

For programmatic workflows, use these alternatives:

Identity: company resolve

GET /v1/companies/resolve returns name, CNPJ, sector, and tickers — the fields most teams reach for CAD to obtain.

export APICVM_KEY='apicvm_...'
export APICVM_URL='https://apicvm.dev'

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APICVM_KEY" \
  "$APICVM_URL/v1/companies/resolve?query=PETR4&by=ticker"

Narrative: FRE

For governance, risk factors, business description, and related-party disclosures, list FRE by ticker and year:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APICVM_KEY" \
  "$APICVM_URL/v1/documents?ticker=PETR4&type=FRE&year=2024&perPage=20"

See the FRE filing type and resolve guide for full patterns.

When to use CAD (portal) vs apicvm

Need Best source today
Official CAD PDF from CVM CVM portal / open-data channels (manual)
Ticker → CNPJ / name / sector GET /v1/companies/resolve via apicvm
Risks, governance, business model FRE via apicvm
Annual or quarterly financials DFP / ITR via apicvm
Full cadastral filing archive CVM portal — not apicvm

If your pipeline only needs issuer identity plus regulatory narrative and financials, resolve + FRE/DFP/ITR usually replaces a separate CAD fetch.

Current limitations

  • CAD is out of scope for the current apicvm ingestion pipeline.
  • Do not invent CAD document counts or imply type=CAD works.
  • Corpus coverage for DFP, ITR, and FRE lags the live CVM portal.
  • If CAD is added to the corpus later, this page will be updated.

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