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Value Line, Inc. is an independent investment research and financial publishing firm based in New York City.Founded in 1931 by Arnold Bernhard, Value Line is best known for publishing The Value Line Investment Survey, a stock analysis newsletter that tracks approximately 1,700 publicly traded stocks.
Value investing is an investment paradigm that involves buying securities that appear underpriced by some form of fundamental analysis. [1] All forms of value investing derive from the investment philosophy taught by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently developed in their 1934 text Security Analysis .
Performance attribution, or investment performance attribution is a set of techniques that performance analysts use to explain why a portfolio 's performance differed from the benchmark. This difference between the portfolio return and the benchmark return is known as the active return. The active return is the component of a portfolio's ...
The discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, in financial analysis, is a method used to value a security, project, company, or asset, that incorporates the time value of money. Discounted cash flow analysis is widely used in investment finance, real estate development, corporate financial management, and patent valuation. Used in industry as early ...
The Value Line Composite Index (VLCI) are two futures market indices published by Value Line, both comprising 1,681 publicly listed companies on the NYSE, NYSE American, NASDAQ, and TSX stock exchanges. They include all components of the company's Value Line Investment Survey except for closed-end funds, [1] designed to be representative of the ...
Modern portfolio theory ( MPT ), or mean-variance analysis, is a mathematical framework for assembling a portfolio of assets such that the expected return is maximized for a given level of risk. It is a formalization and extension of diversification in investing, the idea that owning different kinds of financial assets is less risky than owning ...
In finance, Jensen's alpha [1] (or Jensen's Performance Index, ex-post alpha) is used to determine the abnormal return of a security or portfolio of securities over the theoretical expected return. It is a version of the standard alpha based on a theoretical performance instead of a market index . The security could be any asset, such as stocks ...
Alpha (finance) Alpha is a measure of the active return on an investment, the performance of that investment compared with a suitable market index. An alpha of 1% means the investment's return on investment over a selected period of time was 1% better than the market during that same period; a negative alpha means the investment underperformed ...