1. Value Line Online Online Version of Value Line
How many of you have used the paper version of Value Line before?

2. How to Find Value Line At HCPL Branches On Every Public PC
Harris County Public Library licensed database
At HCPL branches only (not from home or work, etc.)
Every public access PC

3. Getting Started Login to a Public PC Click Start
Library Barcode and PIN number
One-Time User’s Number
Click Start

4. Click Databases

5. Click Business

6. Click on WORDS Value Line Investment Service
(Don’t Click on MORE INFO)

7. Here is the Value Line home page. Click on Support

8. Click on How to Read the Value Line Pages

9. Click on Value Line Investment Survey Page

10. Adobe Acrobat Reader Portable Document Format
Shows Document Same as Paper Version.
May Be Printed Out, Just As One Would Photocopy The Print Page.
Portable Document Format .pdf
Also used for IRS forms

11. Change size to 200% to read better on screen or 100% to print out

12. Click on 200%

13. This page is now at 200%. The Back icon is grayed out so click the X in the upper right hand corner to close.

14. Click on Education

15. Click on How to Use the Value Line Page

16. Eight features on every Value Line ratings page
Click on Explore the Value Line Investment Survey page

17. Click on a number (such as Number 8) to find out more about that feature

18. Feature 8 is the Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio) area

19. Click on the Back Icon when you are done with this page

20. Click on Look Up Company

21. Enter ticker symbol and then click Search

22. Click on the red & white PDF icon

23. Scroll down to see rest of the page

24. Change size to 100% to print out

25. To print out, click on printer icon in the Adobe toolbar.

26. First check that the B&W (black and white) printer is highlighted.
(It may look like this or you may see printer icons.)
Color prints are 50 cents per page. Black & white prints are 10 cents per page.
Click OK

27. Or the printer dialog box may look like this.

28. Change to 200% to read on the screen better

29. Click back to search another company

30. Click Look Up Company again

31. Enter ticker symbol and click on Search

32. Click on HTML

33. Value Line Web Report
Same information as Ratings Page but pages (instead of 1 page)
Has commentary & financial information
Has an additional section called Industry Peers (for competitor intelligence)
There are two ways to find out information about companies.
One is the Value Line Ratings Page. The other is the Web-based report.
The Web-based report is 10 to 12 pages.
Also, it has an extra section (Industry Peers).

34. Scroll down to see the rest of the HTML report

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42. Printing Parts of a Web Page
Highlight what you want to print
Click File. Pulldown menu to click Print
Click Selection. Then click Print.
This will print out only the highlighted portion of the Web page
Highlight the portion of a long Web page that you want to print

43. To print just a section of the HTML report, highlight what you want to print

44. Click Selection and then click Print

45. Stock Lookups Ticker Symbol Lookup Stock Quotes (20-minute delay)
Full text news articles about companies
Chart
JavaChart
Stock Lookup choices

46. If you don’t know the ticker symbol but you have the name of the company, click on Symbol Lookup

47. Enter name of company and click GO

48. Click on blue link

49. Here is the stock quote for Fedex

50. To look up a quote for a stock, use the pulldown menu to select quote and click GO. Quotes have a 20 minute delay.

51. Here is the real-time quote, with a twenty-minute delay

52. To read recent news articles, enter ticker symbol and click GO

53. Click on time (blue link)

54. Here is the full text of that article. Scroll down.

55. At the bottom of this article is more information on this company.

56. Enter stock symbol and choose CHART. Click Go.

57. Scroll down.

58. Enter ticker symbols in the Compare Symbols boxes

59. Create a chart comparing several stocks

60. Here is how these three stocks compare

61. The fourth choice is JavaChart.

62. Scroll down

63. Here is the JavaChart for United Health Group Inc.

64. Here is the rest of this screen.

65. Click on Survey Issues

66. Click on Survey Issues

67. Note that this is a 40 page document.

68. Print version screens

69. Screens Lists of stocks, sorted by various criteria
2 versions – Print and Web
Print: Scroll through 40 p. Adobe document
Web: Use pulldown menu & click
Popular Value Line feature

70. Change size to 100%. Click on printer icon on Adobe Toolbar.

71. Click Pages from 35 to 35. Click OK.

72. Change to 200% to make it easier to read

73. Here is what this page looks like at 200%

74. Click Back icon to return to Survey Issues.

75. Click on View This Week’s Screens

76. Here is the same list. Just use the pulldown menu to point and click.

77. Now you get a clickable list
Now you get a clickable list. Note the gold V icon for the Value Line Alert.

78. Value Line does an Alert when significant information changes about a stock between Ratings pages

79. Value Line Alerts will also show up when searching Lookup Company.

80. Click on Alert to open it.

81. Our Value Line subscription now also includes Small & Midcap, formerly known as Value Line Extended. Click the Back icon.

82. Click on Support

83. Click on How To Read the Value Line Pages

84. Click on The Value Line Small and Mid-Cap Survey Page

85. Again, you can increase the size of the page to 200% or 400% to see it better.
You can change the size to 100% to print it out.
To see the rest of the page, use the scroll bar on the right.
Back icon won’t work. Click the X in the upper right hand corner to close.

86. Click on the Back icon.

87. Click on Survey Issues again

88. Here are the back issues, all 13 previous issues.

89. Click Lookup Industry

90. Includes a brief overview for each industry

91. Companies are listed alphabetically
Companies are listed alphabetically. Click on Performance Rank, Timeliness Rank, or Ticker to change the sort order

92. Now the companies are sorted by Performance Rank
Now the companies are sorted by Performance Rank. If the column is in gold and underlined, you can click on it and sort by this order.

93. Click on Value Line University

94. Here is information on Investment Basics, Investment Strategies, Building a Portfolio, and Studying a Stock.
Click on the Back icon.

95. Click on How to Invest Guides

96. Click on Quick Study Guide for the Value Line Investment Survey
Click on Quick Study Guide for the Value Line Investment Survey. This is another .pdf document that used to be a users guide-type booklet.

97. Here is the title page.

98. Again, the study guide includes a sample Value Line page.
The graph shows historical financial data,which is then also given in a chart just below.

99. The chart allows investors to do their own analysis using the raw numbers.

100. Here is the next section, showing the raw numbers.

101. Mutual Funds
Options
Convertibles
Special Situations
Exchange Traded Funds

102. Log Off when you are done.