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Now Boring and Unloved but a Brand Name since 1931 with 7.10% dividend Yield

Sunday, June 30, 2013 22:53

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VALU: Value Line, Inc

Value Line founded
in 1931 produces investment publications. Those investment publications include
the Value Line Investment Survey, The Value Line
Investment Survey-Small and Mid-Cap, The Value Line 600, and The Value Line
Fund Advisor Plus names. The company also provides niche newsletters, such as
The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Fund Advisor, The
Value Line Convertibles Survey, Value Line Daily Options Survey, Value Line
Select, and Value Line Dividend Select that offers information on securities. The
Value Line Research Center offers on-line access to select company investment
research products covering stocks, mutual funds, options, and convertible
securities, as well as special situation stocks.

VALU has many interesting attributes that make it worth looking at more closely.Current price is $8.50

listing of a few thoughts

1) Share count has been slightly
reduced from the 2004 balance of 9.98M to the current balance of 9.88M.

2) Current Dividend Yield of 7.10%
supported by a strong balance sheet with no long term debt.

3) Small positive insider buying during
2011 to current.

4) Mean reversion candidate with a 52
change of -30% trading near 52 low of 8.02.

5) Historically at lowest value based on P/B and
P/S.

6) Current and historical double digit
ROIC. The ROIC averaged 38% from 2005 to 2012. The current TTM ROIC is 18.87%

7) This may be considered a negative
but Insider ownership is 87.41%, Institutional ownership is 7.10%. The Float is
only 1.24M versus the shares outstanding of 9.88M and shorts as a percentage
of the float 12%.

Market Cap: 83.98M, Enterprise Value: 70.09M

Price/Sales: 2.35, Price/Book: 2.56

Enterprise Value/Revenue: 1.96, Enterprise
Value/EBITDA: 17.57

Profit Margin: 17.28%, Operating Margin:
10.39%

Return on Assets (ttm): 2.80%, Return
on Equity (ttm): 18.87%

Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy): -0.60%

Gross Profit (ttm): 36.61M, EBITDA (ttm): 3.99M

Total Cash: 13.90M, Total Cash Per Share: 1.41

Book Value Per Share (mrq): 3.33

Operating Cash Flow (ttm): 1.30M, Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm): 1.83M

52-Week Change: -29.11%, S&P500 52-Week Change:
17.63%

52-Week High (Aug 6, 2012): 13.69, 52-Week Low (Jun 24, 2013): 8.02

Source: http://shadowstock.blogspot.com/2013/06/boring-and-unloved-but-brand-name-since.html

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