The Value Line Investment Survey's up-to-date, weekly issues are a comprehensive reference that has something useful for virtually every investor. In breadth of coverage it is encyclopedic, covering some 1,700 equity issues.

The Value Line Investment Survey provides more than just descriptive information. It offers year-ahead and three- to five-year probable relative price performance, projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects for each stock it covers.

The Value Line Investment Survey's main section, "Ratings & Reports," presents full-page, individual stock reports (encapsulating the company's past performance, current status, and outlook) and industry reviews. The "Summary & Index " provides a key to locating the latest reports and cites the most recent data on each of the stocks followed. Finally "Selection & Opinion" gives Value Line's views on the economy and the stock market and on stocks of special interest. It also provides model portfolios for investors with various objectives and a number of economic and stock market statistics.

The Small and Mid-Cap of the Value Line Investment Survey contains full-page reports on 1800 stocks, most of which are smaller than those in the Standard edition. Each page contains current and historical financial information and stock price data. It also contains eight different Value Line ranks, most of which are the same as those in the Standard edition. The one difference is the Performance rank, which has been adapted from the Value Line Timeliness rank, and is designed to predict a stock's relative price performance for the next 12 months. Reports in the Small and Mid-Cap edition contains consensus earnings estimates, if available, but they do not contain analysts commentaries.

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