# get_financial_statement

Get financial statement for a given ticker symbol

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `get_financial_statement`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-financial-statement

## Facts

- Tool: `get_financial_statement`
- Server: Yahoo Finance MCP Server (`16coffee/finance-mcp`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/16Coffee/finance-mcp
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade A, identity unverified
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 0
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_financial_statement",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## Why get_financial_statement is rated Low

This tool retrieves historical financial data (balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements) from Yahoo Finance for a specified company ticker. It performs a query operation that does not modify, delete, or execute any actions—it only returns existing financial information. There is no capability to alter data, execute code, or commit financial transactions.

From the tool's own definition: "Tool name 'get_financial_statement' and description 'Get financial statement for a given ticker symbol' indicate a retrieval operation with no side effects."

## Use case

AI agents call get_financial_statement to retrieve information from Yahoo Finance MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches Yahoo Finance MCP Server:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_financial_statement": {}
  }
}
```

## Other tools on Yahoo Finance MCP Server (33)

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- `get_analyst_estimates` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-analyst-estimates.md
- `get_calendar_data` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-calendar-data.md
- `get_crypto_intraday` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-crypto-intraday.md
- `get_crypto_latest_news` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-crypto-latest-news.md
- `get_crypto_list` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-crypto-list.md
- `get_crypto_news` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-crypto-news.md
- `get_crypto_price_eod` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-crypto-price-eod.md
- `get_crypto_quote` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-crypto-quote.md
- `get_crypto_quote_short` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-crypto-quote-short.md
- `get_dcf_valuation` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-dcf-valuation.md
- `get_directory_list` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-directory-list.md
- `get_economic_data` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-economic-data.md
- `get_executive_info` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-executive-info.md
- `get_historical_stock_prices` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-historical-stock-prices.md
- `get_ma_data` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-ma-data.md
- `get_news_sentiment` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-news-sentiment.md
- `get_option_chain` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-option-chain.md
- `get_option_expiration_dates` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-option-expiration-dates.md
- `get_price_target_info` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-price-target-info.md
- `get_ratings` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-ratings.md
- `get_shares_float_info` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-shares-float-info.md
- `get_stock_actions` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-stock-actions.md
- `get_stock_grade_latest_news` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-stock-grade-latest-news.md
- `get_stock_grade_news` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-stock-grade-news.md
- `get_stock_grades` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-stock-grades.md
- `get_stock_grades_historical` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-stock-grades-historical.md
- `get_stock_grades_summary` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-stock-grades-summary.md
- `get_stock_info` — Read — https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp/get-stock-info.md
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- …and 3 more: https://policylayer.com/tools/16coffee-finance-mcp.md

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