getRatios
Analyze a company's financial performance using the Financial Ratios API. This API provides detailed profitability, liquidity, and efficiency ratios, enabling users to assess a company's operational and financial health across various metrics.
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What getRatios does on Financial Modeling Prep
AI agents call getRatios 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | number | — | Limit on number of results (default: 100, max: 1000) |
period | string | — | Period (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, FY, annual, or quarter) |
symbol | string | — | Stock symbol |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why getRatios is rated Low
This tool retrieves and analyzes pre-computed financial ratios for companies. It queries existing financial data without creating, modifying, deleting, executing code, or moving money. The operation is read-only with no side effects, making it a standard data retrieval tool with minimal security risk.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'provides detailed profitability, liquidity, and efficiency ratios' and 'enabling users to assess' — language indicating data retrieval and analysis only. Tool name 'getRatios' begins with 'get', a standard Read operation verb.
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The rule that runs getRatios 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 getRatios, this is the rule to start with:
getRatios 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 getRatios call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about getRatios
Analyze a company's financial performance using the Financial Ratios API. This API provides detailed profitability, liquidity, and efficiency ratios, enabling users to assess a company's operational and financial health across various metrics. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
getRatios accepts 3 parameters: limit, period, 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 getRatios: 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.
getRatios 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 getRatios 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 getRatios. 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.
getRatios 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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