{
  "article": "fiscal-year-vs-calendar-year-companies",
  "chart": "months",
  "asOf": "2026-11-11",
  "title": "Fiscal year-end month, record and S&P 500",
  "unit": "companies",
  "n": 500,
  "series": [
    {
      "name": "On the CFO Voice record (76)",
      "source": "fiscalYearEnd in each company's EDGAR submissions record (data.sec.gov/submissions), as its filings report it",
      "data": [
        {
          "x": "January",
          "y": 4
        },
        {
          "x": "February",
          "y": 0
        },
        {
          "x": "March",
          "y": 4
        },
        {
          "x": "April",
          "y": 1
        },
        {
          "x": "May",
          "y": 1
        },
        {
          "x": "June",
          "y": 3
        },
        {
          "x": "July",
          "y": 3
        },
        {
          "x": "August",
          "y": 1
        },
        {
          "x": "September",
          "y": 4
        },
        {
          "x": "October",
          "y": 5
        },
        {
          "x": "November",
          "y": 1
        },
        {
          "x": "December",
          "y": 49
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "S&P 500 tranche (500)",
      "source": "fiscalYearEnd in each company's EDGAR submissions record (data.sec.gov/submissions), as its filings report it; the tranche is ops/data/sp500.csv",
      "data": [
        {
          "x": "January",
          "y": 23
        },
        {
          "x": "February",
          "y": 1
        },
        {
          "x": "March",
          "y": 8
        },
        {
          "x": "April",
          "y": 5
        },
        {
          "x": "May",
          "y": 8
        },
        {
          "x": "June",
          "y": 23
        },
        {
          "x": "July",
          "y": 4
        },
        {
          "x": "August",
          "y": 6
        },
        {
          "x": "September",
          "y": 23
        },
        {
          "x": "October",
          "y": 13
        },
        {
          "x": "November",
          "y": 4
        },
        {
          "x": "December",
          "y": 382
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}