dividend-analysis

dividend-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from yennanliu/InvestSkill. It costs 21 tokens per session (7,317 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for analysing how a company uses cash for dividends, share buybacks, acquisitions, debt, and other investments.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps assess dividend safety, growth, buyback discipline, acquisitions, debt management, and free cash flow deployment.
Why use it?
It requires current market and company data before analysis, reducing the risk of making financial conclusions from outdated figures.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the us-stock-analysis plugin — 27 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yennanliu/investskill/dividend-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add yennanliu/InvestSkill --skill dividend-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yennanliu/InvestSkill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install us-stock-analysis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,317 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00021 $0.07317
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.03658
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00732

Measured 6d ago against content hash 163aa522bf74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dividend-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 6d ago.

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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/us-stock-analysis/skills/dividend-analysis/SKILL.md · 666 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 666 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Capital Allocation Analysis (Dividend, Buyback, M&A & FCF Deployment)

⚠️ Data Verification — Do This Before Any Analysis

Before running any analysis, always retrieve the latest market data for the ticker:

  1. Fetch current price — use web search or ask the user for the live price, 52-week range, and market cap. Never assume a price from training data.
  2. Confirm key figures — recent earnings, revenue, key ratios (P/E, P/S, etc.) as applicable to this skill.
  3. State your data source — note where the numbers came from (e.g., "Google Finance, June 19 2026") at the top of the output.
  4. Flag stale data explicitly — if live data is unavailable, display this warning before proceeding:

⚠️ Live data unavailable. The following analysis uses training-data estimates which may be significantly out of date. Verify all prices and metrics before making any decisions.

Never silently substitute training-data estimates for current prices. When in doubt, ask the user to paste the latest quote.


Comprehensive capital allocation analysis covering dividend safety, growth trajectory, share buyback discipline, M&A track record, debt management, and FCF deployment quality for US-listed stocks, REITs, and income-focused portfolios.

Analysis Framework

1. Dividend Safety Analysis

Assess the reliability and sustainability of the dividend:

Payout Ratio Analysis

  • EPS-based payout ratio: Dividends per share / Earnings per share. Simple but earnings can be distorted by non-cash items.
  • FCF-based payout ratio: Dividends paid / Free cash flow. More reliable measure — cash must be available to actually pay dividends.
  • AFFO payout ratio (REITs): Dividends / Adjusted Funds From Operations. Standard metric for REITs since depreciation distorts net income.

Safety Thresholds by Sector

Sector               Very Safe    Moderate     Elevated     Danger
General (FCF)          <50%        50-70%       70-85%       >85%
Utilities (FCF)        <60%        60-75%       75-85%       >85%
REITs (AFFO)           <70%        70-80%       80-90%       >90%
Banks (Earnings)       <30%        30-40%       40-55%       >55%
MLPs (DCF)             <60%        60-75%       75-90%       >90%

Read the full file on GitHub · 666 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. 6d ago First seen · 666 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 163aa522bf74

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dividend-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository yennanliu/InvestSkill (199 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 7,317 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.