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The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 companies, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy. For more information click here.
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Value Line's own stock lagged behind its publishing and money management peer group, according to Crain's New York Business. Value Line had been slow to sign on when the mutual fund market heated up; Morningstar would become the brand name in the mutual fund rating business. While the company had added electronic versions of its print products, subscribers switching from one format to another offered no net gain in market share. Competition had ... heated up, coming from the vast stores of financial information of the Internet and from Morningstar, which had entered into the stock ranking business in 1997. Finally, mergers in the financial world created competitors with deeper pockets.
The Value Line Research Center includes on-line access to Value Line's publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. Investment information and performance ratings for over 3,000 public companies with 250 data fields. Evaluations and comparisons of 92 industries are ... included. Older issues since 1980 are available in the Government Documents/Microforms Department (Microfiche 119). Also available from http://www.library.georgetown.edu/advisor/
Industry ranks show the Timeliness of each industry and indicate how Value Line believes the prices of stocks within 90 or more industries will perform relative to each other. These ranks are updated weekly and published on the front cover and inside the Summary & Index. They ... appear at the top of each Industry Report in Ratings & Reports. Industry rank is calculated by averaging the Timeliness ranks of each of the stocks assigned a Timeliness rank in a particular industry.
The Value Line Daily Options Survey provides daily evaluations and ranks of 80,000 listed stock on about 2,000 underlying stocks. You'll ... get The Option Strategist, an online publication offering advice about investing with options. (Help documents: Value Line Guide To Option Strategies)The Value Line Daily Options Survey provides daily evaluations and ranks of 80,000 listed stock on about 2,000 underlying stocks. You'll also get The Option Strategist, an online publication offering advice about investing with options. (Help documents: Value Line Guide To Option Strategies)
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By 2000, Value Line's top picks had fallen below market returns for five straight years. The system depending on historical data and offering only weekly updates could not keep pace with the overheated market and light speed technology of the day. Most of the hottest dotcom stocks, lacking two-year price and earnings data, did not make the rankings. Some observers were writing off the service as out of step with the times; others pointed to the ongoing need for a reliable independent source of information, according to Money magazine.
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