> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.metal.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Financial metrics

> The financial attributes Metal enriches on companies, and how they're sourced and reconciled.

Beyond firmographics, Metal enriches the financial attributes your firm uses to size and screen opportunities — valuation, capital raised, revenue, and more. Like every [enriched](/concepts/enrichment) value, each metric is drawn from multiple sources and [reconciled](/concepts/reconciliation) into a single trusted figure with a citation behind it.

## Financial attributes

Metal can enrich a range of financial metrics on a company. Common ones include:

| Field              | Description                                               |
| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| `lastValuation`    | The company's most recent known valuation.                |
| `lastRoundDate`    | The date of the most recent funding round.                |
| `lastAmountRaised` | The amount raised in the most recent round.               |
| `totalMoneyRaised` | Total capital raised to date.                             |
| `lastFinancials`   | The most recent reported financials (such as revenue).    |
| `ownershipStatus`  | Whether the company is private, public, or sponsor-owned. |
| `employeeCount`    | Headcount, used as a size proxy.                          |

<Note>
  Which attributes Metal enriches — and which sources it uses — is configured by an admin under **Settings → Enrichment**. The exact set available to your organization depends on that configuration.
</Note>

## Where financial values come from

Financial metrics are sourced the same way as any enriched attribute, with documents playing an outsized role:

* **Your documents** — Metal extracts figures from CIMs, financial statements, Quality of Earnings reports, board decks, and other files. Admins choose which document types to extract from under **Settings → Extraction**.
* **Third-party data and web search** — used to fill gaps and corroborate document figures.
* **User input** — values your team enters or confirms.

Because the same metric often appears across several sources with different numbers, Metal [ranks and reconciles](/concepts/reconciliation) them into one displayed value — and keeps the alternatives, each with its source, confidence, and date.

<Frame caption="Financial properties are enriched from prioritized sources, the same as other attributes.">
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/metal-05dd0988/kWbcLNNTbUpq7lH_/images/enrichment-settings.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=kWbcLNNTbUpq7lH_&q=85&s=440866630e7f145e59215afb1d6d6d96" alt="The Enrichment settings page showing financial properties such as Last Valuation, Last Amount Raised, Last Round Date, and Last Financials with their source connections" width="3840" height="2160" data-path="images/enrichment-settings.png" />
</Frame>

## Reading financial metrics over the API

Financial attributes are returned on the company record as their reconciled displayed values. Trigger enrichment, then read the company once it completes:

```bash theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"github-dark"}}
# Trigger enrichment
curl -X POST https://api.metal.ai/v1/companies/665f1c2a9b1e4a0012a3b4c5/enrich \
  -H "x-metal-client-id: $METAL_CLIENT_ID" \
  -H "x-metal-api-key: $METAL_API_KEY"

# Read the enriched company
curl https://api.metal.ai/v1/companies/665f1c2a9b1e4a0012a3b4c5 \
  -H "x-metal-client-id: $METAL_CLIENT_ID" \
  -H "x-metal-api-key: $METAL_API_KEY"
```

Use `lastEnrichedAt` to confirm a value reflects the latest run. See [Enrichment](/concepts/enrichment#enrichment-timestamps) for how to tell when a run is in progress.

<Tip>
  Supplying a `website` and `location` when you create a company improves the accuracy of financial enrichment by helping Metal match the right entity across sources.
</Tip>