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Value Line Inc. VALU

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$33.4M

▼ 4.7% YoY

Net income

$21.6M

▲ 4.6% YoY

Free cash flow

$18.6M

▼ 7.4% YoY

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

Compound annual growth

Revenue

−5.5%

−3.7%

−0.3%

−2.5%

Net income

+6.2%

−1.5%

+11.5%

−3.7%

EPS, diluted

+0.7%

+15.6%

−8.6%

Returned to shareholders

−2.5%

+6.5%

+6.6%

−3.9%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

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

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%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 20.8%

Gross margin—

Operating margin12.1%

Net margin64.7%

Return on assets14.6%

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

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 12.2 · Net buybacks 0.9

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

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
Revenue $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Operating income $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0
EBITDA $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0
Income tax $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0
Net income $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0
Free cash flow $B	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0
EPS, diluted $	·	·	·	·	·	1.55	1.24	1.24	1.52	1.07	0.75	0.74	0.69	0.67	0.70	3.79	−2.32
Dividend / sh $	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	57	55	56	52	35	35	52	61	61	64	85	81	87	90	108	63	−168
ROE %	20.8	21.7	21.8	22.1	32.5	38.6	29.6	26.4	36.2	28.6	21.1	21.5	20.4	20.3	21.1	138.1	−108.1

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

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 10 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityInvestment Advice

Listed onNASDAQ

Incorporated inNew York

Fiscal year endsApril 30

Data on record since2009