Dividends SkillDividends Skill

OnlineCredit Usage:1 per callTool:DividendsSkill

The tool

Give your agent company dividend history. Call it as an MCP tool to pull declared dividends per share and multi-year dividend growth for any US public company by ticker.

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit MCP server, this appears in its tool list as DividendsSkill. It is read-only and open-world: it fetches, it never mutates anything on your side, so most clients will call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call
{
  "name": "DividendsSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "ticker": "AAPL"
  }
}

What that looks like in a conversation

You don't name the tool — the model picks it. Asking about AAPL in the terms this source covers is enough for it to reach for DividendsSkill on its own.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth — the client opens a browser once and there is no key to paste into a config file.

Client config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Endpoint
https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp

Per-client setup — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made.

ArgumentTypeExampleDescription
tickerRequiredstringAAPLStock ticker symbol (e.g. AAPL, MSFT, KO)
periodPremiumstringannualWhich series to return in the history list: quarterly (default) or annual.
limitPremiuminteger10Number of periods to return in the history list (1-25). Defaults to 5.

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client can read fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" on success and error is null; a null field means the value wasn't available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result
{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "company": "Apple Inc.",
    "currency": "USD",
    "paysDividend": true,
    "latestDividendPerShare": 0.26,
    "latestDividendPeriod": "CY2026Q1",
    "latestDividendDate": "2026-03-28",
    "count": 5,
    "dividends": [
      {
        "period": "CY2026Q1",
        "periodEnd": "2026-03-28",
        "perShare": 0.26,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2025Q4",
        "periodEnd": "2025-12-27",
        "perShare": 0.26,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2025Q2",
        "periodEnd": "2025-06-28",
        "perShare": 0.26,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2025Q1",
        "periodEnd": "2025-03-29",
        "perShare": 0.25,
        "form": "10-Q"
      },
      {
        "period": "CY2024Q4",
        "periodEnd": "2024-12-28",
        "perShare": 0.25,
        "form": "10-Q"
      }
    ],
    "analytics": {
      "dividendGrowth1Y": 4.08,
      "dividendGrowth3YCagr": 4.26,
      "dividendGrowth5YCagr": 5.11,
      "consecutiveYearsOfGrowth": 7,
      "averageAnnualGrowthRate": 5.98,
      "isDividendGrower": true,
      "annualHistory": [
        {
          "period": "CY2018",
          "perShare": 0.68
        },
        {
          "period": "CY2019",
          "perShare": 0.75

Fields

Fields marked Premium need a paid plan. On a plan without them the key is absent rather than wrong, so a model never reasons over a substituted value.
FieldTypeExampleDescription
tickerstringAAPLStock ticker symbol for the company
cikstring0000320193SEC Central Index Key unique identifier
companystringApple Inc.Official registered name of the company
currencystringUSDCurrency of the dividend amounts
paysDividendbooleantrueWhether the company reports a common-stock dividend
latestDividendPerSharenumber0.26Most recent reported dividend per share
latestDividendPeriodstringCY2026Q1Period of the most recent reported dividend (e.g. CY2025Q4)
latestDividendDatestring2026-03-28Period-end date of the most recent reported dividend
countnumber5Number of periods returned in the history list
dividendsarray[5]list of rowsReported dividend history, most recent first
dividends.0.periodstringCY2026Q1
dividends.0.periodEndstring2026-03-28
dividends.0.perSharenumber0.26
dividends.0.formstring10-Q
analyticsobject{…}Derived dividend-growth summary
analytics.dividendGrowth1YPremiumnumber4.08Year-over-year dividend growth (percent)
analytics.dividendGrowth3YCagrPremiumnumber4.263-year dividend growth rate, annualized (percent)
analytics.dividendGrowth5YCagrPremiumnumber5.115-year dividend growth rate, annualized (percent)
analytics.consecutiveYearsOfGrowthPremiumnumber7Consecutive years the annual dividend has increased
analytics.averageAnnualGrowthRatePremiumnumber5.98Average year-over-year dividend growth across the series (percent)
analytics.isDividendGrowerPremiumbooleantrueWhether the latest annual dividend rose versus the prior year
analytics.annualHistoryPremiumarray[8]list of rowsFull-year declared dividend per share by year
analytics.annualHistory.0.periodstringCY2018
analytics.annualHistory.0.perSharenumber0.68

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors with a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code.

StatusWhat it means
400 / 422The arguments didn't validate. The message names the offending one.
401The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
403Out of credits. Not a bad key — the month's allowance is spent.
404This skill isn't part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
429Brief rate limit. Retrying after a moment succeeds.

Other ways to use Dividends Skill

Set up Dividends Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an X-API-Key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerveReference →
Use it in Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheetsReference →
Ground an agent on itA cited, machine-checkable fact your model can't produce on its own.VerveContextReference →

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to tell the agent to use DividendsSkill?

No. The tool's name and description are in the model's context once the server is connected, so it selects the tool when the question calls for it. Naming it explicitly works too and is useful when you want to force the call.

Does connecting the server expose every tool at once?

Yes — one connection lists the whole VerveKit catalog. Clients with a tool budget can usually filter the list; the credit cost is per call, so an unused tool costs nothing.

What does a call cost?

1 credit each time the tool actually runs. A model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Is there a REST version of this?

Yes — the same source is available as a plain HTTPS endpoint on APIVerve, linked above. Same data, same credits, same account.

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