SEC form glossary

Form S-8: registration of securities for employee benefit plans.

Form S-8 registers securities a reporting company offers to its employees and consultants under equity compensation plans, such as shares reserved for stock options and RSUs.

Filed by
Reporting companies offering securities to employees under benefit plans
Deadline
No filing deadline; effective automatically on filing
Observed filings
25
Volume rank
#52 of 162 forms

Who files Form S-8

Reporting companies offering securities to employees under benefit plans.

When it is due

No filing deadline; effective automatically on filing.

What it contains

  • Plan description by reference
  • Number of shares registered

Recent Form S-8 filings we observed

Newest 12 filings with form S-8, S-8 POS in our collector’s record (through 2026-11-09). Each links to the filing index on SEC.gov.
FiledCompanyFormAccession
2026-11-09OCULAR THERAPEUTIX, INCS-80001104659-26-124187
2026-11-06Fox CorpS-80001193125-26-452081
2026-11-06Fox CorpS-8 POS0001193125-26-452084
2026-11-06FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC.S-80001193125-26-452048
2026-11-06ROKU, INCS-8 POS0001193125-26-451970
2026-11-06ROKU, INCS-8 POS0001193125-26-451966
2026-11-06ROKU, INCS-8 POS0001193125-26-451959
2026-11-06ROKU, INCS-8 POS0001193125-26-451957
2026-11-06ROKU, INCS-8 POS0001193125-26-451953
2026-11-06Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.S-8 POS0001193125-26-451950
2026-11-06ROKU, INCS-8 POS0001193125-26-451948
2026-11-06Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.S-8 POS0001193125-26-451944

Variants in the sample: S-8 POS (14), S-8 (11).

Get Form S-8 filings through the API

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Questions

What is SEC Form S-8?

Form S-8 registers securities a reporting company offers to its employees and consultants under equity compensation plans, such as shares reserved for stock options and RSUs.

When is Form S-8 due?

No filing deadline; effective automatically on filing.

Who files Form S-8?

Reporting companies offering securities to employees under benefit plans.

Does an S-8 mean new shares were sold?

It registers shares for future issuance under employee plans. Actual grants and exercises by insiders appear on Form 4.

Related forms

Definition and deadline: SEC form instructions or rule release. Examples: our record of EDGAR’s latest-filings feed and daily indexes, last observed 2026-11-09.

Plain-text version for agents and LLMs: /sec-forms/s-8.md

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