getOwnerEarnings
Retrieve a company's owner earnings with the Owner Earnings API, which provides a more accurate representation of cash available to shareholders by adjusting net income. This metric is crucial for evaluating a company’s profitability from the perspective of investors.
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What getOwnerEarnings does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call getOwnerEarnings 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 getOwnerEarnings is rated Low
This tool retrieves pre-calculated financial metrics (owner earnings) from a financial data service. It performs no modifications, executions, deletions, or financial transactions. It simply queries and returns analytical data about a company's profitability metrics. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could only request unwanted data lookups, which has no financial or operational consequence.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'getOwnerEarnings' and description 'Retrieve a company's owner earnings' indicates data retrieval only. The verb 'Retrieve' and context of 'API' for accessing financial metrics confirm read-only access to computed financial data.
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The rule that runs getOwnerEarnings 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 getOwnerEarnings, this is the rule to start with:
getOwnerEarnings 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 getOwnerEarnings call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getOwnerEarnings
Retrieve a company's owner earnings with the Owner Earnings API, which provides a more accurate representation of cash available to shareholders by adjusting net income. This metric is crucial for evaluating a company’s profitability from the perspective of investors. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
getOwnerEarnings 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 getOwnerEarnings: 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.
getOwnerEarnings 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 getOwnerEarnings 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 getOwnerEarnings. 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.
getOwnerEarnings 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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