returns-analysis

returns-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/financial-services. It costs 88 tokens per session (864 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A private-equity deal returns calculator that builds tables showing how changes in price, borrowing, business growth, sale price and holding period affect results. It reports IRR, the annualized return, and MOIC, the multiple of money invested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to size up a deal, test base, upside and downside cases, and prepare returns exhibits for an investment committee review.
Why use it?
It makes the assumptions behind a proposed investment visible and helps show how sensitive the outcome is to better or worse conditions.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

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

Part of the valuation-reviewer plugin — 3 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to size up a deal, test base, upside and downside cases, and prepare returns exhibits for an investment committee review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/financial-services/returns-analysis
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 returns-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install valuation-reviewer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 864 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 13 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Jun 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 $0.00088 $0.00864
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00086

Measured today against content hash 362f2a713bc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

returns-analysis 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/agent-plugins/valuation-reviewer/skills/returns-analysis/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Returns Analysis

Workflow

Step 1: Gather Deal Inputs

Ask for (or extract from prior analysis):

Entry:

  • Entry EBITDA (LTM or NTM)
  • Entry multiple (EV / EBITDA)
  • Enterprise value
  • Net debt at close
  • Equity check size
  • Transaction fees & expenses

Financing:

  • Senior debt (x EBITDA, rate, amortization)
  • Subordinated debt / mezzanine (if any)
  • Total leverage at entry (x EBITDA)
  • Equity contribution

Operating Assumptions:

  • Revenue growth rate (annual)
  • EBITDA margin trajectory
  • Capex as % of revenue
  • Working capital changes
  • Debt paydown schedule

Exit:

  • Hold period (years)
  • Exit multiple (EV / EBITDA)
  • Exit EBITDA (calculated from growth assumptions)

Step 2: Base Case Returns

Calculate:

Metric Value
Entry EV
Equity invested
Exit EBITDA
Exit EV
Net debt at exit
Exit equity value
MOIC
IRR
Cash-on-cash

Show the returns waterfall:

  • EBITDA growth contribution
  • Multiple expansion/contraction contribution
  • Debt paydown contribution
  • Fee/expense drag

Step 3: Sensitivity Tables

Build 2-way sensitivity matrices:

Entry Multiple vs. Exit Multiple

Exit 6x Exit 7x Exit 8x Exit 9x Exit 10x
Entry 7x
Entry 8x
Entry 9x
Entry 10x

EBITDA Growth vs. Exit Multiple (at fixed entry)

Leverage vs. Exit Multiple (at fixed entry and growth)

Hold Period vs. Exit Multiple

Show both IRR and MOIC in each cell (IRR / MOIC format).

Step 4: Scenario Analysis

Build 3 scenarios:

Bull Base Bear
Revenue CAGR
Exit EBITDA margin
Exit multiple
Exit EBITDA
MOIC
IRR

Step 5: Output

  • Excel workbook with:
    • Assumptions tab
    • Returns calculation
    • Sensitivity tables (formatted with conditional coloring)
    • Scenario summary
  • One-page returns summary suitable for IC deck

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 362f2a713bc5

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returns-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/financial-services (34,793 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 864 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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