Value Line Institutional Data Sales and Services

The Backbone of Financial Analysis

Value Line Institutional Services provides corporate customers with extensive financial and statistical data gathered by Value Line analysts. Products range from packaged databases covering stocks and mutual funds to Windows® based software products which allow clients to tailor their information needs exactly. No other database service so effectively combines fundamental historical data with quality estimates and projections on the most actively traded issues in North American markets. The Value Line Composite Index is used as a benchmark for broad market and economic performance.

When you subscribe to Value Line's institutional database services, you gain access to information on more than 7,700 public companies, most of which have market capitalizations exceeding $10 million and over 20,600 open end mutual funds.

Value Line's institutional services are valuable research and asset management tools that can keep you a step ahead of your competition by providing you with both the depth and breadth of data necessary to make informed decisions. Value Line's objective research allows users the freedom to manipulate data according to their own standards, independent of brokerage relationships.

The "as reported" format of our equity research enables the user to make his or her own adjustments to the financials and gain a better measure of a company's historical growth characteristics and financial profile.

An Institutional Resource

Value Line's information services provide complete research and analysis on all the major companies that represent the bulk of the trading volume of North American exchanges, and ADRs of the largest Asian and European companies. Value Line's analysts have compiled and analyzed data since 1955.

Additionally, data is available on over 20,600 of the most popular domestic open end mutual funds. Value Line has applied its experience in covering and rating equities to evaluating and rating mutual funds. In addition to complete fundamental data, you also have access to our mutual fund rankings. Value Line calculates an Overall Rank and a Risk Rank on all funds that have at least three years of performance history.

Value Line Databases

Datafile

The extensive historical information available for each publicly traded company is a valuable tool for institutional money managers, while the weekly updates and estimates and projections keep users abreast of the most recent developments. This information is essential to form accurate opinions on a company's fundamentals and it provides a frame of reference for the company's probable performance in the next 6 to 12 months and over the 3 to 5 year term.

While most companies fit into an industrial reporting format, Value Line has created special models for financial firms that do not fit an industrial format. Industries such as banks, thrift institutions, brokerage firms and insurance companies are reported in formats that quickly and accurately convey their financials and true value and performance.

Whole companies, and/or industries, can be compared, contrasted and evaluated in moments, tremendously increasing the productivity and capabilities of portfolio managers and analysts.

You have access to the renowned Value Line ranking system for Timeliness, which has a track record of outperforming all the well-known market indexes and other price performance measures. Some of the other proprietary rankings include Safety, Financial Strength, Industry Timeliness, Earnings Predictability and Price Growth Persistence.

Value Line Investment Research

The Experience of over 70 Securities Analysts. When you use Value Line, you get much more than high-quality research and expert projections.

You have access to the analysis and judgment of a staff of more than 70 professional securities research analysts (50 on The Value Line Investment Survey, 20 on other services), who possess expertise in quantitative and qualitative research.

Analysts, whether they specialize in industries or companies, are required to sign off on their work personally. Each analyst is intimately familiar with the fundamental data used as a basis for estimates and projections.

In addition, Value Line's data accuracy is assured by a staff of quality control personnel whose work is devoted exclusively to the scrutiny of the data for reliability and accuracy.

A State-of-the-Art Computer Environment

Value Line's electronic products give you access to data usually available only to the largest institutions. Value Line has invested millions of dollars to ensure reliable, timely delivery of its information with the accuracy that institutional money managers have come to rely upon.

Value Line's analysts formulate their opinions from research done using a state-of-the-art computing environment. PC and Unix work stations are connected by a Local Area Network into a Tandem mainframe, featuring software and hardware redundancy along with parallel processing.

Each member of the Value Line research staff sends and receives information to the mainframe and communicates with other analysts using networked PCs, reducing the opportunity for clerical errors.

This investment in superior hardware and software ensures that the high quality effort of our staff is enhanced by systems support and integration, allowing Value Line to deliver the best research accurately and at the lowest price to institutional clients.

Mutual Fund Datafile

If your research needs require mutual fund data, Value Line offers its Mutual Fund Datafile in electronic formats. This database covers over 20,600 of the most popular domestic equity and bond funds. Value Line's mutual fund analysts provide a 400 word written analysis on over 1,500 of these funds.

The Mutual Fund Datafile provides monthly pricing, basic fund information, weekly performance data, sector weights, holdings data, historical monthly returns, per share data and much more. This information is updated every week and made available to you through the Value Line online service.