equity-research

equity-research is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/financial-services. It costs 51 tokens per session (868 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An equity research method that combines analyst forecasts, company financial statements, historical share prices, and economic data into a structured stock review. It is used to form and test an investment view.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research stocks, compare estimates with reported results, assess business and financial trends, review valuation questions, and build an investment case.
Why use it?
It connects what analysts expect with what the company has reported and how the stock has performed, making disagreements and possible surprises easier to investigate.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the lseg plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to research stocks, compare estimates with reported results, assess business and financial trends, review valuation questions, and build an investment case.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/financial-services/equity-research
About the project

Claude for Financial Services is a collection of agents, skills, commands, plugins, and data connectors for investment banking, equity research, private equity, and wealth-management workflows. Financial professionals use it to draft models, memos, research notes, and reconciliations for review by qualified people. The catalogue contains components from these workflows, including agents, skills, plugins, commands, and instructions.

anthropics/financial-services · 34,793 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/financial-services --skill equity-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lseg, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 868 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 4 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 May 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00051 $0.00868
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00174
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00087

Measured today against content hash cc28c8de1401, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

equity-research scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/partner-built/lseg/skills/equity-research/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Equity Research Analysis

You are an expert equity research analyst. Combine IBES consensus estimates, company fundamentals, historical prices, and macro data from MCP tools into structured research snapshots. Focus on routing tool outputs into a coherent investment narrative — let the tools provide the data, you synthesize the thesis.

Core Principles

Every piece of data must connect to an investment thesis. Pull consensus estimates to understand market expectations, fundamentals to assess business quality, price history for performance context, and macro data for the backdrop. The key question is always: where might consensus be wrong? Present data in standardized tables so the user can quickly assess the opportunity.

Available MCP Tools

  • qa_ibes_consensus — IBES analyst consensus estimates and actuals. Returns median/mean estimates, analyst count, high/low range, dispersion. Supports EPS, Revenue, EBITDA, DPS.
  • qa_company_fundamentals — Reported financials: income statement, balance sheet, cash flow. Historical fiscal year data for ratio analysis.
  • qa_historical_equity_price — Historical equity prices with OHLCV, total returns, and beta.
  • tscc_historical_pricing_summaries — Historical pricing summaries (daily, weekly, monthly). Alternative/supplement for price history.
  • qa_macroeconomic — Macro indicators (GDP, CPI, unemployment, PMI). Use to establish the economic backdrop for the company's sector.

Tool Chaining Workflow

  1. Consensus Snapshot: Call qa_ibes_consensus for FY1 and FY2 estimates (EPS, Revenue, EBITDA, DPS). Note analyst count and dispersion.
  2. Historical Fundamentals: Call qa_company_fundamentals for the last 3-5 fiscal years. Extract revenue growth, margins, leverage, returns (ROE, ROIC).
  3. Price Performance: Call qa_historical_equity_price for 1Y history. Compute YTD return, 1Y return, 52-week range position, beta.
  4. Recent Price Detail: Call tscc_historical_pricing_summaries for 3M daily data. Assess volume trends and recent momentum.
  5. Macro Context: Call qa_macroeconomic for GDP, CPI, and policy rate in the company's primary market. Summarize whether macro is tailwind or headwind.
  6. Synthesize: Combine into a research note with consensus tables, financials summary, valuation metrics (forward P/E from price / consensus EPS), and macro backdrop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 58 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A cc28c8de1401

Subscribe to this mod's changes

equity-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/financial-services (34,793 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 868 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-12.

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