get_financials
Financial Statements
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Get multi-period financial statements: income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow in one call.
Returns quantitative historical data with key metrics and trends. Default: all 3 statements, quarterly, 2 years.
For qualitative analysis (risks, accounting quality, management tone), use get_filing_index (signal map) then get_filing_section to read the text.
Use Cases:
- "Show me AAPL's financials" -> all statements
- "MSFT revenue trend 5 years" -> period="annual", years=5
- "Is Tesla's debt increasing?" -> statements=["balance"]
- "As of a past date / point-in-time" -> get_financials("MSFT", vantage_date="2024-04-30") (values as known from filings published on/before that date)
Each period cites its original disclosing SEC filing (accession + filed date in a footnote; resolvable EDGAR index handles in the <raw_data> block), so every figure is traceable to its source filing.
**Exactness:** the markdown table ABBREVIATES ($68.14M) — it quantises to $10K above $1M and $10M above $1B, so it is not a tie-out surface. The <raw_data> block carries the exact stored value (68135000). Quote figures from <raw_data>, not the table, whenever the precise number matters.
Responses capped at ~20K chars. If truncated, whole statements are dropped (not sliced) with a note — request fewer statements or reduce years. Note the cap also trims <raw_data> periods, so a truncated response can lose the exact channel for the dropped periods.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ticker | string | yes | Company ticker symbol (e.g., 'AAPL'). Must be exact. |
| period | string | no | Time period granularity |
| years | integer | no | Years of history (default 2, max 10) |
| statements | array | no | Which statements to include (default: all three) |
| vantage_date | string | no | As-of vantage (YYYY-MM-DD): restrict to filings PUBLISHED on or before this date, and cite the filing that was current then. Omit for the latest. IMPORTANT — this bounds which FILINGS are visible and which SOURCE is cited; it does NOT reconstruct the value as it stood on that date. If a later filing restated a period, THE RESTATED VALUE IS WHAT IS SERVED under a pre-vantage citation — and the response carries an explicit LOOK-AHEAD warning naming the affected periods, so the exposure is disclosed rather than silent. For a true as-originally-filed series use get_xbrl_facts with period_history=true. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ticker": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Company ticker symbol (e.g., 'AAPL'). Must be exact."
},
"period": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"quarterly",
"annual"
],
"default": "quarterly",
"description": "Time period granularity"
},
"years": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 10,
"default": 2,
"description": "Years of history (default 2, max 10)"
},
"statements": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"income",
"balance",
"cashflow"
]
},
"default": [
"income",
"balance",
"cashflow"
],
"description": "Which statements to include (default: all three)"
},
"vantage_date": {
"type": "string",
"pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
"description": "As-of vantage (YYYY-MM-DD): restrict to filings PUBLISHED on or before this date, and cite the filing that was current then. Omit for the latest. IMPORTANT — this bounds which FILINGS are visible and which SOURCE is cited; it does NOT reconstruct the value as it stood on that date. If a later filing restated a period, THE RESTATED VALUE IS WHAT IS SERVED under a pre-vantage citation — and the response carries an explicit LOOK-AHEAD warning naming the affected periods, so the exposure is disclosed rather than silent. For a true as-originally-filed series use get_xbrl_facts with period_history=true."
}
},
"required": [
"ticker"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}