Description: The Value Line Research Center includes:

The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. Its up-to-date issues are a comprehensive reference that has useful information for virtually every investor. In breadth of coverage it is encyclopedic, covering some 1,700 equity issues. Every week, about 135 stocks in seven or eight industries are covered.

The Value Line Investment Survey – Small and Mid-Cap complements The Value Line Investment Survey and covers approximately 1,800 additional, mostly small-capitalization, issues. The Small and Mid-Cap Edition features consensus earning estimates for many companies, a business description of each company, including recent corporate developments, and Value Line's Performance Ranks, designed to predict relative price performance over the next six to 12 months. The publication does not include analysts' commentaries.

The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey gives proprietary rankings of over 7,000 mutual funds, full reports including analyst commentaries for an additional 1,500 leading equity funds, and profile summary reports on over 10,000 mutual funds. Additionally, the Value Line database can be screened to find specific funds that meet investment objectives.

The Value Line Daily Options Survey includes daily evaluations and ranks of 80,000 listed stock and on about 2,000 underlying stocks.

The Value Line Special Situations Service opens the world of emerging companies with bright futures to the more aggressive investor. Our analysts are constantly on the lookout for lesser-known stocks where unusual developments may pave the way for extraordinary rewards.

The Value Line Convertibles Survey includes analysis and evaluation of nearly 600 convertible issues and 120 warrants in a timely and easy to use format.

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are like index funds, that is, mutual funds designed to mirror the performance of various stock or bond market indexes. However, they also have important additional properties. Like an equity index fund, an ETF share represents an interest in the set of stocks constituting a particular market index. Unlike an index fund, however, ETF shares can be traded any time the market is open, just like stocks, and not like mutual funds that can only be traded as of the end of a day