getFinancialRatiosTTM
Gain access to trailing twelve-month (TTM) financial ratios with the TTM Ratios API. This API provides key performance metrics over the past year, including profitability, liquidity, and efficiency ratios.
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What getFinancialRatiosTTM does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call getFinancialRatiosTTM to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
symbol | string | — | Stock symbol |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why getFinancialRatiosTTM is rated Low
This tool fetches historical financial ratio data (profitability, liquidity, efficiency metrics) for research and analysis. It performs no mutations, deletions, executions, or financial transactions—merely returns precomputed or aggregated data to inform investment decisions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getFinancialRatiosTTM' and description states it 'provides key performance metrics' and 'Gain access to' ratios—language indicating data retrieval with no modification.
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The rule that runs getFinancialRatiosTTM safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Financial Modeling Prep, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For getFinancialRatiosTTM, this is the rule to start with:
getFinancialRatiosTTM is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Financial Modeling Prep, apply this rule, and every getFinancialRatiosTTM call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getFinancialRatiosTTM
Gain access to trailing twelve-month (TTM) financial ratios with the TTM Ratios API. This API provides key performance metrics over the past year, including profitability, liquidity, and efficiency ratios. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
getFinancialRatiosTTM accepts 1 parameter: symbol. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for getFinancialRatiosTTM: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Financial Modeling Prep. Nothing to install.
getFinancialRatiosTTM is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the getFinancialRatiosTTM rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for getFinancialRatiosTTM. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
getFinancialRatiosTTM is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP server (cfocoder/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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