How Value Line, Inc. stacks up

VALU · against 153 other Financial Services companies listed in US-listed

Growth

19/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #129 of 154 · scores higher than 15% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the growth score

14 peers with a growth score of 10–19, including VALU · Click a bar to see the companies

Why growth scores 19?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Mainly because of its 3-year revenue growth, revenue growth and earnings per share growth, which are weaker than most Financial Services peers.

slower revenue growth over three years: weaker than 86% of peers. 3-year revenue growth: -5.9% vs peer median 10.0%
slower revenue growth over the last year: weaker than 76% of peers. Revenue growth: -5.5% vs peer median 7.4%
slower growth in earnings per share: weaker than 66% of peers. Earnings per share growth: -6.5% vs peer median 10.0%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = VALU, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	VALU	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Revenue growthHigher is better · 179 reported	-5.5%	10.5%	26%	33%
Earnings per share growthHigher is better · 131 reported	-6.5%	11.4%	38%	33%
3-year revenue growthHigher is better · 138 reported	-5.9%	11.5%	9%	33%

Ranking by growth score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around VALU

Rank	Company	Market cap	Growth	Overall
1	ASA Gold and Precious Metals LimitedASA · US-listed	883M USD	99	51
1	BlackRock Income Trust, Inc.BKT · US-listed	322M USD	99	58
3	Gladstone Investment CorporatioGAIN · US-listed	601M USD	98	72
3	Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income PortfolioNXP · US-listed	843M USD	98
5	Franklin Municipal Opportunities TrustPMO · US-listed	282M USD	97
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127	Credit Acceptance CorporationCACC · US-listed	4.9B USD	21	18
128	BlackRock ESG Capital Allocation Term TrustECAT · US-listed	1.4B USD	20
129	Crawford & CompanyCRD-A · US-listed	538M USD	19	43
129	Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.TSLX · US-listed	1.7B USD	19	49
129	Value Line, Inc.VALU · US-listed	434M USD	19	43
132	AllianceBernstein Holding L.P.AB · US-listed	3.2B USD	18	66
132	Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.VRTS · US-listed	798M USD	18	47
132	World Acceptance CorporationWRLD · US-listed	772M USD	18	51
135	Crescent Capital BDC, Inc.CCAP · US-listed	345M USD	17	21

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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