Value Line, Inc. (VALU): Price and Financial Metrics

VALU POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where VALU ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 92.99% of US stocks.
• VALU's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• VALU ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 11th percentile.

VALU Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of VALUE LINE INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 86.97% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• VALU's price/sales ratio is 12.9; that's higher than the P/S ratio of 91.24% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -14.87%, VALUE LINE INC's debt growth rate surpasses just 18.75% of about US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to VALU, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are NPK, WAFU, DSWL, CIX, and IPAR.
• VALU's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit VALUE LINE INC's official web site, go to www.valueline.com.

VALU Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, VALU's price/earnings ratio is 133.33% higher, now standing at 26.6.
• VALU's price/earnings ratio has moved up 1.2 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VALU.

VALU Growth Metrics

Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -24.45%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 499.58%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 0.56%.

Over the past 33 months, VALU's revenue has gone up $713,000.

The table below shows VALU's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	40.396	21.985	18.209
2022-06-30	40.303	22.347	22.383
2022-03-31	40.525	24.646	23.822
2021-12-31	40.121	25.682	27.093
2021-09-30	39.993	20.002	27.508
2021-06-30	40.23	18.619	24.06

VALU's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• VALU has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 92.45% of graded US stocks.
• VALU's asset turnover comes in at 0.342 -- ranking 63rd of 443 Trading stocks.
• CNS, AAT, and AINV are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with VALU.

The table below shows VALU's key quality metrics over time.