# Yahoo Finance

> Use this tool when you need to access real-time financial data and generate visualizations to inform investment decisions or track market trends. It solves problems related to financial analysis, investment research, and market monitoring by providing functions to retrieve stock prices, company information, and news, and outputting informative charts and dashboards. Ideal for use in conversational AI interfaces, it accepts inputs such as stock symbols and company names, and returns visualizations and reports to support data-driven decision making.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/leoncuhk-yahoo-finance  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/leoncuhk-yahoo-finance

## Description

MCP Yahoo Finance provides tools to access real-time financial data and generate visualizations through the Yahoo Finance API. This server offers functions to retrieve stock prices, company information, dividends, income statements, and news, along with visualization capabilities for market sentiment dashboards, portfolio tracking reports, and technical analysis charts. Built by leoncuhk as an extension of maxscheijen's original implementation, it adds comprehensive visualization features using matplotlib, seaborn, and plotly libraries to transform raw financial data into informative charts and dashboards. The implementation is particularly valuable for financial analysis, investment research, and market monitoring through conversational AI interfaces without requiring direct API interaction or data visualization expertise.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.93
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/leoncuhk-yahoo-finance)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/leoncuhk/mcp-yahoo-finance>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "leoncuhk-yahoo-finance"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/leoncuhk-yahoo-finance` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/leoncuhk-yahoo-finance/pull`

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