# Yahoo Finance

> Use this tool when you need to retrieve real-time and historical financial data, such as stock prices and company information, to inform investment research, financial analysis, and market monitoring decisions. It provides a range of query types, including current stock prices, historical data, income statements, and company news, through a specialized interface. Ideal for AI agents requiring accurate and up-to-date financial data to solve problems related to investment and market analysis.

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

## Description

MCP Yahoo Finance provides tools for AI assistants to interact with Yahoo Finance data, enabling retrieval of stock prices, company information, financial statements, dividends, and news. Developed by Max Scheijen, this server implementation leverages the yfinance Python package to fetch real-time and historical financial data through a set of specialized tools. The implementation supports various query types including current stock prices, historical data with customizable time ranges, income statements, and company news, making it particularly valuable for financial analysis, investment research, and market monitoring use cases.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 1.00
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-19

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** finance
- **Updated:** 2026-09-19

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/maxscheijen-yahoo-finance)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/maxscheijen/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": "maxscheijen-yahoo-finance"
    }
  }
}
```

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

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