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Value Line databases

Brief descriptions of Value Line's Research Center and Investment Survey are provided below. For more complete descriptions, please visit Value Line on the Web http://www.valueline.com

MLC's Public and Academic group subscriptions to Value Line databases run February 1 - January 31. Mid-year additions are welcome.

Libraries may subscribe to either Value Line Research Center or to its single module Value Line Investment Survey.  Research Center includes on-line web access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.  Specifically, a subscription to the Research Center will include:

  • The Value Line Investment Survey
    The Value Line Investment Survey, recently rated by Hulbert number 1 among 165 research newsletters for risk adjusted gains during the last 20 years, is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. Its up-to-date issues are a comprehensive reference that has useful information for virtually every investor. In breadth of coverage it is encyclopedic, covering some 1,700 equity issues. Every week, about 135 stocks in seven or eight industries are covered.

  • The Value Line Investment Survey - Expanded Edition
    The Value Line Investment Survey - Expanded Edition complements The Value Line Investment Survey and covers approximately 1,800 additional, mostly small-capitalization, issues. The Expanded Edition features consensus earning estimates for many companies, a business description of each company, including recent corporate developments, and Value Line's Performance Ranks, designed to predict relative price performance over the next six to 12 months. The publication does not include analysts' commentaries.
  • The Value Line Database Companies
    In addition to the 3,500 companies covered between the two publications discussed above, Value Line also maintains a database on approximately an additional 4,500 companies. The Value Line Investment Survey Plus includes the ability to screen and generate profile reports on this expanded universe, bringing the total equity coverage to over 8,000 companies!!!
  • The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey
    The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey gives you proprietary ranks on over 7,000 mutual funds, full reports including analyst commentaries for an additional 1,500 leading equity funds, and profile summary reports on over 10,000 mutual funds. Additionally, you can screen the Value Line database to find specific funds that meet your investment objectives.

  • The Value Line Daily Options Survey
    The Value Line Daily Options Survey allows access to the Value Line Daily Options Survey for daily evaluations and ranks of 10,000 listed stock and stock index options and 2,500 longer-term options (LEAPS). You'll also get The Option Strategist, an online publication offering advice about investing with options.

  • The Value Line Special Situations Service
    The Value Line Special Situations Service opens the world of emerging companies with bright futures to the more aggressive investor. Our analysts are constantly on the lookout for lesser-known stocks where unusual developments may pave the way for extraordinary rewards. Stocks covered in this publication may well include another Computer Associates or ADP.

  • The Value Line Convertibles Survey
    You'll find analysis and evaluation of nearly 600 convertible issues and 120 warrants in a timely and easy to use format in The Value Line Convertibles Survey. Besides buy and sell recommendations, comprehensive reports on recommended securities, as well as news on companies in the service, Part 2 (the Evaluation Section) is available in Microsoft Excel (r) format.

  • The Value Line ETF Survey
    This service has an ETF Expected Relative Return Rating System that builds on Value Line's experience with its Timeliness Ranking System. Starting with the list of stocks in each ETF, the raw score forecast for each stock's expected relative performance is weighted by that stock's market capitalization and then summed to arrive at a capitalization weighted average forecast for the ETF as a whole. These forecasts are scaled to numbers ranging from a possible +50 (Highest Expected Relative Return) to -50 (Lowest). A rating of 0 (zero) corresponds to an expected return comparable to the markets.