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Value Line Inc. VALU

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$33.4M
▼ 4.7% YoY
$21.6M
▲ 4.6% YoY
$18.6M
▼ 7.4% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

The Company's core business is producing investment periodicals and their underlying research and making available certain Value Line copyrights, Value Line trademarks and Value Line Proprietary Ranks and other proprietary information, to third parties under written agreements for use in third-party managed and marketed investment products and for other purposes. Value Line markets under well-known brands including Value Line®, the Value Line logo®, The Value Line Investment Survey®, Smart Research, Smarter Investing™ and The Most Trusted Name in Investment Research®. Value Line believes that these trademarks and service marks provide significant value to the Company and are an important factor in the marketing of its products and services, as well as in the marketing of the Value Line Funds, now managed by EAM. At April 30, 2026, the Company and its subsidiaries employed 106 people.

Written from the business description in Value Line, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 July 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 33.4M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 33.4 · Net income 21.6
25.0M50.0M-10.0M-20.0M
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
−5.5%
−3.7%
−0.3%
−2.5%
+6.2%
−1.5%
+11.5%
−3.7%
+0.7%
+15.6%
−8.6%
−2.5%
+6.5%
+6.6%
−3.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −3.7% a year over the five years to FY2025.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

65 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 12.1% · Net 64.7%
20%40%60%-20%-40%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 20.8%
50%100%-50%-100%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin·
Operating margin12.1%
Net margin64.7%
EBITDAUSD 5.3M

Each USD of equity produced 21 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 13.2M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 18.6
10M20M-4M-8M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 12.2 · Net buybacks 0.9
15M30MDividendsNet buybacks
200920112013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paidUSD 12.2M
Net buybacksUSD 928,000.00
Share of profit60.8%
Consecutive raises·

USD 12.2M in dividends and USD 928,000.00 in buybacks — 61% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 151.9M
EquityUSD 107.9M
CashUSD 24.2M
Current ratio3.92×

Equity funds 71% of total assets.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
VALU, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.1
Operating income $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
EBITDA $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
EPS, diluted $◌◌◌◌◌1.551.241.241.521.070.750.740.690.670.703.79−2.32
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout %575556523535526161648581879010863−168
ROE %20.821.721.822.132.538.629.626.436.228.621.121.520.420.321.1138.1−108.1

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Six checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityInvestment Advice
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inNew York
Fiscal year endsApril 30
Data on record since2009

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