# earnings_transcript_signals

Earnings call transcript signal extractor for equity research analysts, catalyst-driven hedge funds, and BD teams. Parses earnings transcripts (fetched or provided) to surface: • signals (P0/P1/P2): guidance raise/cut, miss/beat vs consensus, buyback, dividend change, new product, executive change, capex shift, M&A intent, regulatory risk, competitive threat, supply chain, hiring • kpis_mentioned: Revenue, EBITDA, EPS, FCF, Gross Margin, Operating Margin with YoY/QoQ % • guidance: raised / maintained / cut / new_initiated items extracted • q_and_a_topics: top Q&A themes detected (AI strategy, China exposure, M&A pipeline, macro, etc.) • overall_tone: bullish / neutral / bearish Sources fetched automatically: SEC EDGAR 8-K filings, Yahoo Finance earnings news, Motley Fool transcripts. If no transcript can be retrieved from any source, returns status:'failed' with an explicit warning and empty signals — never fabricated data. Accepts transcript_text override for direct analysis. Supports multilingual transcripts (de/fr/es/zh). European tickers (SAP.DE, BMW.DE) mapped to EDGAR-compatible equivalents automatically.

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `earnings_transcript_signals`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-getgapup-mcp-knowledge/earnings-transcript-signals

## Facts

- Tool: `earnings_transcript_signals`
- Server: Mcp Knowledge (`https://mcp.gapup.io`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/io-github-getgapup-mcp-knowledge.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/getgapup/gapup-mcp
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade F, identity unverified
- Server auth posture: open
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 5 (1 required)
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `lang` | string | no | Language hint for the transcript. Affects mock transcript language when fetch fails. |
| `async` | boolean | no | If true, returns a job_id immediately (<200ms) instead of waiting for the result. Poll the result with job_result(job_id). Use for slow tools to avoid client ti |
| `quarter` | string | no | Fiscal quarter in format Q1-2026. Defaults to the most recent past quarter. |
| `transcript_text` | string | no | If provided, skips all external fetches and analyses this text directly. Minimum 100 characters. |
| `company_or_ticker` | string | yes | Company name or ticker symbol (e.g. 'Tesla', 'TSLA', 'SAP', 'SAP.DE', 'Sanofi', 'SNY'). European tickers (SAP.DE, BMW.DE) are mapped to their ADR equivalents fo |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

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

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "earnings_transcript_signals",
    "arguments": {
      "company_or_ticker": "<company_or_ticker>"
    }
  }
}
```

## Why earnings_transcript_signals is rated Low

This tool reads and analyzes earnings call transcripts to extract signals and financial metrics. It retrieves/parses existing data without modifying anything. Severity is medium because the output (guidance cuts, M&A intent, regulatory risk signals) could inform high-stakes financial decisions, but the tool itself only reads and surfaces information rather than executing trades or financial transactions.

From the tool's own definition: "Parses earnings transcripts (fetched or provided) to surface signals, kpis_mentioned, guidance, q_and_a_topics"

## Use case

AI agents call earnings_transcript_signals to retrieve information from Mcp Knowledge 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 Mcp Knowledge:

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

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