VALUE LINE, INC.
711 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(212) 687-3965

For the professional investor, Value Line provides analysis in perspective. Because it covers the broad field of stocks it is able through its ranking system to direct attention to those stocks that are perceived to be inefficiently priced in the current market. Corporations have found this information helpful in scouting merger and acquisition possibilities, in keeping informed on what is happening to competitors, in comparing operating results with those of other companies and in finding new markets. Investment and Pension Fund Managers have found Value Line's electronic products to be an essential decision making resource.

Accuracy is the most important characteristic of a data base. At Value Line, their 100 analysts provide the data, not clerks, as in most competitive data bases. Their record of accuracy and consistent performance over the years is unmatched. No other service of its kind-or close to its price provides the depth and quality of analysis you get from Value Line.

For nearly two decades, Value Line has made concerted efforts to create and maintain financial data bases of the highest accuracy and usefulness. Its first commercial data base was offered in the early 1970s and since then the universe of data has been expanded dramatically to provide unusually powerful research tools. Today's offerings include:

• Data Base-II, Value Line's fourth-generation data base, provides information on 1,800 major industrial companies in over 91 industries, all but a few of which are also covered by the staff of nearly 100 professional securities analysts who are responsible for The Value Line Investment Survey. The annual data begins in 1955, quarterly data in 1963, and over 1100 data items are presented for each year.

• The Estimates and Projections File for 1,600 of the companies that are regularly followed in The Value Line Investment Survey. For each of those companies, this file provides over 70 items of forward-looking data, including 3-5 year projections of more than 20 key time series. Every one of Value Line's proprietary investment measures, such as Timeliness and Safety Ranks, Earnings Predictability Index and Growth Persistence Index, is included. Value Line Estimates and Projections are available exclusively through Value Line.

• Convertible Data Base contains convertible securities with a total market value of over $50 billion. It gives users the ability to instantaneously update Value Line's evaluation of convertible securities using the latest prices or price the user selects. This data is the foundation of Value Line's convertible advisory service. Only Value Line has developed and made available a body of such data for broad distribution.

For portfolio managers and traders, this convertible system offers portfolio evaluation, full screening of the data base, statistical data, and comprehensive evaluations, as well as the ability to perform "what if" calculations.

The VALUEMASTER system combines DataWindow microcomputer software, developed by Interactive Data Corp, with a Value Line Financial Data Base of 1,600 companies. The system permits screening and data retrieval from a list of 100 data items for each company. It also provides the user with the ability to create customised criteria by combining existing data items in various algebraic formats.

The software, based on windowing technology, screens criteria instantaneously as the user enters the name and value. As many as 25 criteria may be used at one time. Portfolio candidates can be identified by screening the entire data base, company lists of the user's preference or industry groups.

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