Calculating the Market Share of US Companies with the Help of EDGAR

Edgar is classifying the reporting companies by SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) Code. We can use this information to calculate the total sales per sector and then calculate the % share of the individual company.

This is helping us to identify the companies with a big market share.

The result (which uses Spark) can be found in the following Gist. Alternatively here is a version which purely relies on Scala and Smart EDGAR