Value Line
VALU on Nasdaq. Value Line sells investment research and data to investors and third parties. Market value $381m.
Price checks use the past 12 months to July 2026. Some use the latest annual report instead, as marked. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to April 2026.
We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.
Should I look at this?
Good business, but not cheap right now
Why it could be worth it
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This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
Yearly profit per dollar of owners' money: 22 cents. Above 10 is good.
What you pay for each dollar of net assets: $3.52.
Profit per $100 you pay: $5.15.
Quality score: 100 of 100. Price score: 32 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$41.00 a share, 28% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $32.00 to $41.18.
Dividend: 3.2% a year
Paid every year for at least 5 years
Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $41m | $40m | $37m | $35m | $33m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn | 0.01bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positiveDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
- Accounting checksDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
- DebtDoesn't apply to banks and insurers
- Revenue growth, five yearsShrinking, 3.7% a year
- Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat
The quarter to July 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $8 million last quarter, down 6% on a year ago.
- Profit: $5 million, down 28% on a year ago.
- Sales did not grow on a year ago in any of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| October 2024 | $9m |
| January 2025 | $9m |
| April 2025 | $8m |
| July 2025 | $9m |
| October 2025 | $9m |
| January 2026 | $8m |
| April 2026 | $8m |
| July 2026 | $8m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| October 2024 | $6m |
| January 2025 | $5m |
| April 2025 | $4m |
| July 2025 | $6m |
| October 2025 | $6m |
| January 2026 | $6m |
| April 2026 | $4m |
| July 2026 | $5m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 29 July 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 14 December 2026
Who owns it
None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 52 funds in all.
Largest holders overall
- Neuberger Berman Group$5mAdded
- BlackRock$4mAdded
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$2mCut
- Gabelli Funds$2m
- Teton Advisors$1m
- Wells Fargo & Company$1m
- Geode Capital Management$962,269
- Oppenheimer$850,809Cut
- North Star Investment Management$651,728
- State Street$561,093
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
No one has reported a stake above 5% since December 2024.
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
In the last 12 months, 1 insider bought $6,778 of shares on the open market.
- BRECHER HOWARD AChairman and CEO, DirectorBought
- Date
- 21 May 2026
- Shares
- 200
- Price
- $33.89
- Value
- $6,778
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May 2026 | BRECHER HOWARD A Chairman and CEO, Director | Bought | 200 | $33.89 | $6,778 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
What could go wrong
- Sales have shrunk: 3.7% a year.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
Your first deep dive is free.
Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.