About yfinancemcp
yfinancemcp is a Yahoo Finance MCP server for finance analysis, offering high-level functions for Claude Desktop users to query stock prices and examine stock performance.
Key features
- 01Query current stock prices
- 02Analyze stock performance
- 03Explore market moves around financial news
Use cases
- 01Check the current MSFT price
- 02Review tech stocks' response to tariff news
- 03Compare near-term prospects for INTC and NVDA
MCP support
It exposes Yahoo Finance functions as tools to MCP clients. The README describes manually adding the server to Claude Desktop.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEyfinancemcp
MCP Server for Yahoo Finance w/ high level functions
Install python + dependencies
numpy
pandas
fastmcp
yfinance
Need Claude desktop and to manually add this MCP server to it via these instructions https://ai-claude.net/mcp/
Ask,
What is the current MSFT stock price?
What tech stocks have gone up in response to recent US tariff news?
Do a deep dive on these stocks.
What are the changes that INTC outperforms NVDA in the near future?
PLTR vs other stocks in the category
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