system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 - Why if I own stock in a company and am literally a partial owner of that company I don't have a right to access all financial information of that company.

Seems to me that I should be able to know everything about a company I co-own...
gpt
Under SEC guidelines, all publicly-traded companies file quarterly and annual reports containing a great deal of financial information. They're usually available on company websites under an "investors" link.

Apologies if you're already familiar with all that, and are asking about access to more detailed information. Presumably there are all sorts of issues associated with making things like detailed asset, revenue, inventory, and expense data publicly available.