(VALU) FY Earnings of $0.74 Per Share, up 7.7% from Prior Fiscal Year

Value Line, Inc., (NASDAQ: VALU) reports results for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2015.

During the twelve months ended April 30, 2015, the Company’s net income of $7,292,000, or $0.74 per share, was $524,000 or 7.7% above net income of $6,768,000, or $0.69 per share, for the twelve months ended April 30, 2014. During the twelve months ended April 30, 2015 there were 9,813,623 average common shares outstanding as compared to 9,839,155 average common shares outstanding during the twelve months ended April 30, 2014. Income from operations of $2,399,000 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2015 which included additional depreciation and amortization expense of $630,000 including accelerated amortization of $138,000 related to obsolete software recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 was $102,000 below income from operations of $2,501,000 for the twelve months ended April 30, 2014. During the fourth quarter ended April 30, 2015, the Company’s reported loss from operations of $560,000 was the result of 12 weeks of print revenues recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 as compared to 13 weeks recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, an additional direct marketing campaign in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015, and the accelerated write-off of obsolete software. Total product line circulation at April 30, 2015 was 5.8% above total product line circulation at April 30, 2014, continuing a positive trend of increased subscribers with the product mix including increased sales of our introductory-level services. The Company has been successful in growing revenues from digitally-delivered investment periodicals within the institutional area and in our consumer-oriented introductory offerings. Institutional Sales total sales orders for the twelve months ended April 30, 2015 were $481,000 or 3.7%, above comparable total sales orders for the twelve months ended April 30, 2014.

Shareholders’ equity of $34,439,000 at April 30, 2015 compares favorably to shareholders’ equity of $33,298,000 at April 30, 2014. As of April 30, 2015, retained earnings and liquid assets were $34,587,000 and $15,506,000, respectively.

The Company recently announced a 6.7% increase in its quarterly dividend from $0.15 per common share to $0.16 per common share and the Board of Directors re-affirmed the Company’s Common Stock Repurchase program.

The Company’s annual report on Form 10-K has been filed with the SEC and is available on the Company’s website at www.valueline.com/About/corporate_filings.aspx. Shareholders may receive a printed copy, free of charge upon request.

Value Line, Inc. is a leading New York based provider of investment research. The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most widely used sources of independent equity investment research. Value Line also publishes a range of proprietary investment research in both print and digital formats including research in the areas of Mutual Funds, Options and Convertible securities. Value Line’s acclaimed research also enables the Company to provide specialized products such as Value Line Select, Value Line Special Situations, Value Line Select: Dividend Income & Growth, and copyright data, distributed under copyright agreements for fees, including certain proprietary ranking system information and other proprietary information used in third party products. Investment Management services are provided through its substantial non-controlling and non-voting interests in EULAV Asset Management, the investment advisor to The Value Line Family of Mutual Funds. Value Line’s products are available to individual investors by mail, at www.valueline.com or through 1-800-VALUELINE or 1-800-535-9648, while institutional-level services for professional investors, advisers, corporate, academic, municipal and legal libraries are offered at www.ValueLinePro.com and at 1-800-531-1425.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This report contains statements that are predictive in nature, depend upon or refer to future events or conditions (including certain projections and business trends) accompanied by such phrases as “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “will”, “intend” and other similar or negative expressions, that are “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Actual results for Value Line, Inc. (“Value Line” or “the Company”) may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the following:

• maintaining revenue from subscriptions for the Company’s digital and print published products;
• changes in market and economic conditions, including global financial issues;
• protection of intellectual property rights;
• dependence on non-voting revenues and non-voting profits interests in EULAV Asset Management, a Delaware statutory trust (“EAM” or “EAM Trust”), which serves as the investment advisor to the Value Line Funds and engages in related distribution, marketing and administrative services;
• fluctuations in EAM’s assets under management due to broadly based changes in the values of equity and debt securities, redemptions by investors and other factors, and the effect these changes may have on the valuation of EAM’s intangible assets;
• dependence on key personnel;
• competition in the fields of publishing, copyright data and investment management;
• the impact of government regulation on the Company’s and EAM’s businesses;
• availability of free or low cost investment data through discount brokers or generally over the internet;
• terrorist attacks, cyber security attacks and natural disasters;
• other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the risks described in Item 1A, “Risk Factors” of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2015; and

• other risks and uncertainties arising from time to time.

These factors are not necessarily all of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any of our forward-looking statements. Other unknown or unpredictable factors which may involve external factors over which we may have no control or changes in our plans, strategies, objectives, expectations or intentions, which may happen at any time at our discretion, could also have material adverse effects on future results. Except as otherwise required to be disclosed in periodic reports required to be filed by public companies with the SEC pursuant to the SEC’s rules, we have no duty to update these statements, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. In light of these risks and uncertainties, current plans, anticipated actions, and future financial conditions and results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking information contained herein.