Aswath Damodaran

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 ......

General

22 April, 2013

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 ......

General

12 March, 2013

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 ......

General

26 February, 2013

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 ......

Others

17 December, 2012

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. ......

General

31 July, 2012

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 ......

TMT

30 May, 2012

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. ......