Aswath Damodaran
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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 ......
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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 ......
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The Golden rule? Thoughts on gold as an investment
Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, gold is a "riddle, wrapped up in a mystery inside an enigma", at least as far as ......
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Marty Lipton: Shareholder champion, stakeholder protector or management tool?
I do not personally know Marty Lipton, nor have I met him. Based on what I have read about him ......
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Hundred dollar bills are hard to come by!
It looks like I just I cannot stay away from the Apple story, with Tim Cook making a splash (or ......
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Goodwill, more plug than asset
There is no asset on a company’s balance sheet that wreaks more havoc on valuation and good sense than goodwill. ......
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Earnings surprises, price reaction and value
The earnings season is upon us and each company’s earnings announcement is eagerly awaited, traded upon and talked about. For ......
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Social media bubble burst at 12.15 pm New York time on May 18: Valuation guru
The social media bubble that had been building up for the last five to six years might have actually burst. ......