Yahoo Finance MCP: Stock Prices, Earnings, and Dividends for Free

TL;DR

The Yahoo Finance MCP skill gives your agent access to real-time stock quotes, historical price data, earnings calendars, dividend schedules, options chains, and analyst ratings — using Yahoo's public API with no API key required.

The 10-Second Pitch

• **Real-time quotes** — price, volume, bid/ask for any US or international ticker
• **Historical data** — daily, weekly, monthly OHLCV data going back decades
• **Earnings calendar** — upcoming earnings dates and analyst estimates
• **Dividend history** — ex-dates, amounts, and yield calculations
• **Options chains** — strike prices, expiry dates, open interest
• **Analyst ratings** — consensus rating and price targets
• **No API key required** — uses Yahoo's public endpoints

Setup in 2 Steps

1. **Install:**

mrt install yahoo-finance-api

2. **Use it directly in your agent or terminal:**

yahoo-finance get-quote --symbol AAPL,MSFT,GOOGL

yahoo-finance get-historical --symbol TSLA --period 1mo --interval 1d

yahoo-finance get-earnings --symbol NVDA

**Prompt to test it:**

What is the current price of NVDA, when is its next earnings date, and what is the analyst consensus rating?

What You Can Build With This

This skill becomes powerful when embedded in agentic workflows:

• **Portfolio monitors** — daily summary of position performance sent to Slack
• **Earnings alert pipelines** — notify you before earnings for stocks you hold
• **Options flow analysis** — scan unusual options activity for a watchlist
• **Dividend tracking** — track upcoming ex-dates for income portfolio management
• **Research assistants** — pull financial data into a research session

Pros / Cons

Verdict

For personal finance monitoring, research pipelines, and agentic finance workflows, Yahoo Finance via MCP is the best free option available. It does not replace Bloomberg for professional trading desks, but for developers building finance-aware agents, it costs nothing and covers 95% of what most people need.