8 Posts found for Author: Aswath Damodaran

In The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications, Aswath Damodaran presents the corporate life cycle as a universal key for demystifying business finance, strategy and company valuation. He outlines how corporations age, describes the characteristics of each stage of their life cycle, and discusses implications for managers and investors.

In his conversation with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Damodaran outlines how … [ Read more ]

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Aswath Damodaran, Martin Reeves | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: General

Ostensibly about Bitcoin, this is an excellent finance/economics article that explains the differences between assets, currencies, commodities and collectibles and the difference between trading (pricing) and investing (valuing).

Content: Article | Author: Aswath Damodaran | Subjects: Economics, Finance

A Booz & Company study reveals that only 17 percent of companies are poised for a profitable future.

Content: Article | Authors: Aswath Damodaran, Vinay Couto | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Best Practices, Management, Strategy

For the last two decades, Aswath Damodaran has dedicated the first two weeks of each new year to a ritual. He obtains/collects/downloads data on all publicly traded companies listed globally, using a variety of data sources, and then analyzes and presents the data, aggregated at a number of different levels: by country, by region (US, Europe, Emerging Markets, Japan, Australia & Canada) and by industry. … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Author: Aswath Damodaran | Source: NYU Stern School of Business | Subjects: Economics, Finance, Free Stuff / Tools, Reference / Search

Detailed notes about EVA and its calculation. Part of the excellent Damodaran Online site.

Content: Article | Author: Aswath Damodaran | Subject: Finance

Valuation is at the heart of every investment decision, whether that decision is to buy, sell, or hold. But the pricing of any financial asset has become a more complex task in modern financial markets. Now completely revised and fully updated to reflect changing market conditions, Investment Valuation, Second Edition, provides expert instruction on how to value virtually any type of asset-stocks, bonds, options, futures, … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Aswath Damodaran | Subject: Finance

In a world where investors are inundated with advertisements for the latest and best ways to value stocks, it is easy to see why so many are overwhelmed by the choice in models and confused about their merits. It is worth noting, in the midst of all the hype, that valuation today is fundamentally not that different from valuation 20 or even 50 years ago. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Aswath Damodaran | Source: STERNbusiness (NYU) | Subject: Finance

Professor Damodaran of NYU’s Stern School of Business has put together this immensely useful site for finance students and professionals. It contains lots of material, including lecture notes, spreadsheets, datasets, books (descriptions, manuscripts, problem solutions, etc.) and webcasts for the areas of Corporate Finance, Investment, and Valuation.

Content: Online Resource | Author: Aswath Damodaran | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools