Aswath Damodaran
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Alibaba's coming out party: Valued right, but is it priced right?
As Alibaba's IPO approaches and the road show kicks into high gear, questions about its accounting, value and corporate governance ......
General
Facebook buys Whatsapp for $19B: Value and pricing perspectives
This week, I was at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, talking about the difference between price and value. ......
Technology
Facebook buys Whatsapp for $19B: Value and pricing perspectives
This week, I was at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, talking about the difference between price and value. ......
Others
Value in the eye of the storm: Why you should welcome uncertainty!
One of the responses to my last post on valuing young companies was that even if you can value companies ......
TMT
Valuation Myths: Young companies cannot be valued
Twitter is now officially a publicly traded company, and I am glad that we no longer have to debate the ......
General
Decline and denial: Thoughts on Blackberry endgame and Microsoft as value trap
The last few days have been filled with reminders for me of both the destructive and the redemptive powers of ......
General
Valuation of the week 1: A Tesla Test
I taught the first session of my valuation class, that I previewed in my last post, today. As part of ......
TMT
Market mood swings: Facebook euphoria
Facebook's stock price briefly hit $38, its IPO price, just before today's opening bell. In the 15 months since it went ......
General
Rediscovering risk in emerging markets: A Country Risk Premium update
Investors have a mixed relationship with risk, forgetting that it exists in the good times and obsessing about in bad ......
Others
A tangled web of values: Enterprise value, Firm Value and Market Cap
Investors, analysts and financial journalists use different measures of value to make their investment cases and it is not a ......