Aswath Damodaran

Others

18 September, 2014

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

22 February, 2014

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

22 February, 2014

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

08 January, 2014

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

19 November, 2013

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

25 September, 2013

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

05 September, 2013

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

05 August, 2013

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

11 July, 2013

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

01 July, 2013

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 ......