Yahoo Finance MCP server

by narumiruna·io.github.narumiruna/yfinance-mcp·v0.14.0·207 stars

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Access Yahoo Finance stock data, news, screeners, options, financials, and charts through MCP.

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Yahoo Finance tools (15, 2 write)

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yfinance_get_analyst_estimates
Fetch consensus estimates, EPS/revenue trends, revisions, recommendations, and earnings history.
yfinance_get_analyst_price_targets
Fetch the current price and analyst consensus price targets for a stock.
yfinance_get_financials
Fetch financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow) with historical data.
yfinance_get_fund_data
Fetch ETF or mutual-fund composition, holdings, exposures, ratings, and operating details.
yfinance_get_holders
Fetch major holders, institutional holders, mutual fund holders, and insider data.
yfinance_get_option_chain
Fetch option chain data (calls and puts) for a stock with available strike prices.
yfinance_get_option_dates
Fetch available option expiration dates for a stock.
yfinance_get_price_history
Fetch historical price data and optionally generate technical analysis charts.
yfinance_get_ticker_info
Retrieve comprehensive stock data including company information, financials, trading metrics and governance.
yfinance_get_ticker_news
Fetch recent news articles and press releases for a specific stock.
yfinance_get_top
Get top-ranked financial entities within a sector.
yfinance_get_upgrades_downgrades
Fetch analyst upgrades, downgrades, initiations, and price target changes.
yfinance_screenwrite action
Run a Yahoo Finance screener query.
yfinance_screen_gapperswrite action
Run a custom equity screener tuned for opening-session stock gappers.
yfinance_search
Search Yahoo Finance for stocks, ETFs, and news articles.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-11-03 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings

Code scan6 source files scanned25/25
–Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
–Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10

Overall 92/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.Rubric Appeal a finding JSON

How Yahoo Finance compares

Against every graded Finance MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score: 92/100; higher than 95% of 1,765 Finance servers
Tools: 15; the typical Finance server has 9
Tools that change things: 13%; typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
GitHub stars: 207; more than 95% of 957 Finance servers
Downloads a week: 675; more than 93% of 505 Finance servers with a package

What its tools let an agent do: 13 read · 2 change

Install Yahoo Finance in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add yfinance-mcp -- uvx yfmcp

Add to Cursor

What the publisher says

From the Yahoo Finance repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

Yahoo Finance MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI assistants with access to Yahoo Finance data via yfinance. Query stock information, financial news, sector rankings, and generate professional financial charts — all from your AI chat.

Features

Stock Data — Company info, financials, valuation metrics, dividends, and trading data
Analyst Data — Consensus targets, estimate/revision trends, recommendation history, and firm-level actions
Financial Statements — Income statement and balance sheet with historical data (EBIT, Invested Capital, etc.)
Financial News — Recent news articles and press releases for any ticker
Search — Find stocks, ETFs, and news across Yahoo Finance
Sector Rankings — Top ETFs, mutual funds, companies, growth leaders, and top performers by sector
Price History — Historical OHLCV data as markdown tables or professional charts
Chart Generation — Candlestick, VWAP, and volume profile charts returned as WebP images
Options Data — Option chains with calls, puts, strike prices, IV, and expiration dates
Ownership Data — Major holders, institutional investors, mutual fund holders, and insider transactions
Fund Look-Through — ETF and mutual-fund holdings, asset classes, sectors, ratings, and operating details
Screeners — Predefined, equity, mutual-fund, and ETF query trees

Tools

yfinancegetticker_info

Retrieve comprehensive stock data including company info, financials, trading metrics, and governance data.

Returns: JSON object with company details, price data, valuation metrics, trading info, dividends, financials, and performance indicators.

yfinancegetanalystpricetargets

Fetch the current price and analyst consensus price targets for a stock.

Returns: JSON object with current, low, high, mean, and median price fields. Analyst coverage and available fields vary by symbol.

yfinancegetanalyst_estimates

Fetch analyst consensus estimates, revision momentum, recommendations, growth estimates, and earnings history.

Returns: Named arrays for available sections plus _metadata containing per-section row counts, truncation status, unavailable sections, and failed sections. A failure in one section does not discard successfully fetched sections.

yfinancegetupgrades_downgrades

Fetch analyst upgrades, downgrades, initiations, reiterations, and price-target changes, newest first.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Yahoo Finance: common questions

Is Yahoo Finance MCP server safe?: Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (92/100). Read the Yahoo Finance safety report
How do I install Yahoo Finance?: It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does Yahoo Finance need an API key?: Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
Is Yahoo Finance maintained?: The last commit was 14 days ago (2026-11-01). The latest release is v0.14.0.
What can I use instead of Yahoo Finance?: Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Tapetide - Indian Stock Market MCP server, HPSILab Quant Finance MCP server and Finance Toolkit MCP server. Compare all Yahoo Finance alternatives.
How does Yahoo Finance compare with other Finance MCP servers?: safety score 92/100 (higher than 95% of 1,765 Finance servers); tools 15 (the typical Finance server has 9); tools that change things 13% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.

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