Morningstar MCP Server

Connect trusted data to your AI workflows with the Morningstar MCP Server.

datapoint-finder

Finds official Morningstar datapoint names from topic-organized buckets.

The buckets under references/buckets/ list datapoint names by topic — use them to find candidate names.

Workflow

Open the matching bucket(s) below (up to 3) and build a candidate name list — bucket names are a starting point, add your own reasonable guesses too.

Intent → bucket map

Performance & Returns

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
Total/trailing/annual/calendar/daily/monthly return, YTD/1Y/3Y/5Y/10Y return, return index, growth of $10Kperf-trailing-periodic
Percentile rank in category, % rank vs peers, quartile, # investments in categoryperf-return-rankings
Beta, standard deviation/volatility, R-squared, tracking error, up/down capture, batting average, bear-market rank, strategic betaperf-risk-metrics
Alpha, Sharpe, Sortino, information ratio (risk-adjusted)perf-risk-adjusted

Morningstar Ratings

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
Star rating, risk rating, return rating, "X-star"rating-star
Medalist Rating, pillars (Parent/People/Process/Price/Performance), fair value per share, brand tenure/retentionrating-medalist
Quantitative rating, quant fair value, fair value uncertaintyrating-quant-equity
ESG risk rating / sustainability rating of a fundrating-sustainability
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Portfolio Analysis

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
Country/region exposure, geographic breakdown, US vs non-USpa-geographic-exposure
Sector/industry weights (equity econ sector, super sector)pa-sector-industry
Asset allocation (stock/bond/cash/other %, long/short)pa-asset-allocation
Style box, growth/value factors, sustainability/style tiltspa-style-factor
Portfolio avg market cap, portfolio P/E·P/B·P/S, avg moat, turnover, duration, credit qualitypa-statistics
# of holdings, # bond/stock holdings, top-10 weightpa-holdings
Target-date glide path (allocation by years-to-target), glide path type / landing pointpa-glide-path

Price & Distribution & Flows

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
Price, last close, NAV, market price, 52-wk high/low, premium/discount, AUVprice-prices
Yield (12-mo/SEC/7-day), dividends paid, capital gains, ROC, distributionsprice-distributions
Trading volume, spread, days tradedprice-trading-activity
Estimated net flowsprice-fund-flows
Fund size, AUM, net assets, tier-level/vehicle assetsprice-aum

Expense & Fee

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
Expense ratio (net/gross/adjusted), management/admin/custodian/advisor fees, ongoing chargefee-management-ongoing
Transaction/trading costs, spreads, RG97 T&O costs, borrowing costsfee-transaction-trading
Front/deferred load, exit/switching/contribution fee, sales chargefee-entry-exit-load
Performance fee, hurdle rate, high-water mark, crystallisationfee-performance-based
12b-1 / distribution & sales / revenue-sharing fee, no-load flagfee-distribution-sales

Corporate Financials

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
A stock's P/E·P/B·P/S, ROE/ROA/ROIC, margins, debt/equity, growth, economic moat, growth grade, market cap, quick ratio, tax ratecf-financial-ratios-metrics
Income statement: revenue, cost of revenue, gross/operating profit, EBITDA, EPS, interest/tax, net incomecf-income-statement
Balance sheet: total assets/liabilities/equity, PP&E, goodwill, debt, inventory, receivables/payables, working capitalcf-balance-sheet
Cash-flow statement: operating/investing/financing cash flows, capex, dividends paid, changes in working capitalcf-cash-flow
Shares outstanding (basic/diluted/weighted-avg), share countscf-share-data

ESG & Sustainability

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
EU SFDR / EU Taxonomy disclosure & regulatory flagsesg-eu-taxonomy

Ownership

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
Number of shareholders, trustee / ownership factsown-statistics

Reference Data & Fund Information

If the user is asking about…Load bucket
Currency, domicile, inception, status, minimums, flags (index/active, REIT, UCITS), tax transparency, glide-path/data-readyref-operations
Name, ticker, ISIN/CUSIP/WKN, FundId/SecId/CompanyId, share class, fund/branding nameref-identification
Manager name/tenure/ownership/education, firm assets, advisor/custodianref-management-org
Morningstar Category / Global Category / theme, investment type, a stock's sector/industryref-classification
Benchmark/index, prospectus benchmark, index family, index selection/weightingref-benchmark-index

Tie-break rules for overlapping terms

  • "market cap" → a stock ST159 (cf-financial-ratios-metrics); portfolio average HS03W (pa-statistics); size breakdown lives in pa-style-factor.
  • "economic moat" → a stock LT181 (cf-financial-ratios-metrics); portfolio average HS0D1 (pa-statistics).
  • "fair value" → Morningstar Fair Value per Share ST202 and Price/Fair Value OS603 (rating-medalist); Quantitative Fair Value QV009 / Fair Value Uncertainty ST201 (rating-quant-equity).
  • "P/E", "P/B", "P/S" → a stock (ST412/ST408/ST415) in cf-financial-ratios-metrics; portfolio (TTM, long, e.g. HS05X) in pa-statistics.
  • "yield" / "dividend yield" → a fund → 12 Mo / SEC / 7-Day Yield in price-distributions; distributions paid also price-distributions.
  • "sector" → fund weights → pa-sector-industry; stock classification → ref-classification.
  • "volume" → trading volume/spread → price-trading-activity, not price-prices.
  • "expense ratio" / "fee level" → fee-management-ongoing.
  • "rating" → 1–5 star → rating-star; Medalist (Gold/Silver/Bronze) → rating-medalist; quant → rating-quant-equity; ESG/sustainability → rating-sustainability.
  • "base currency" → Base Currency LS05M (ref-operations), never Minimum Investment.