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

VALU POWR Grades

• VALU scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 93.67% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for VALU is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 154 days.
• VALU's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 17.23% of US stocks).

VALU Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Value Line Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.61% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a price/sales ratio of 16.04, Value Line Inc has a higher such ratio than 91.15% of stocks in our set.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of -30.56%, Value Line Inc's debt growth rate surpasses only 13.51% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Value Line Inc are CIX, CKX, MSN, NPK, and WAFU.
• 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 32.73% higher, now standing at 14.6.
• Over the past 243 months, VALU's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 2.3.
• Over the past 243 months, VALU's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 2.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VALU.

VALU Growth Metrics

The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -16.61%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 42.61%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 1183.38%.

VALU's revenue has moved up $3,864,000 over the prior 34 months.

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
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
2021-03-31	40.392	16.41	23.28
2020-12-31	40.467	17.244	19.012
2020-09-30	41.14	19.611	17.935

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.