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Aswath Damodaran

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Session 25: Financial Flexibility and Distressed Equity as Options

October 30, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

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Sow the wind, Reap the whirlwind: An Inflation Update (September 23, 2022)

October 30, 2026 · 37 min

Inflation has taken center stage, in markets, and in policy makers' minds, for much of 2022. For much of the year, the market has been trying to play catch up with inflation, with expectations running behind actual inflation, and prices…
Uncertainty in Investing and Valuation: What if questions, Scenario Analysis and Simulations

October 30, 2026 · 2 hr 0 min

Session on Uncertainty for the Motley FoolIt is natural to feel uncertain about your value estimates, once you are done valuing a company, and second guess yourself. In this session, I start with the basic Excel tools you can use to ask…
Session 23: FCFE, Dividends and Cash Balances

October 30, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

After the quiz, in a shortened class, we moved on to look at how much a company can afford to pay out as dividend. This measure, that I titled FCFE, is the cash left over after taxes, reinvestment needs and net debt payments. When a…
Free Cash Flow: Back to Basics

October 29, 2026 · 45 min

In every market correction, investors discover old truths, and this one has been no different. Not only have you seen the conversation shift from scaling up to profitability, but from earnings to cash flows. Managers and investors are…

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Session 24: Natural Resource Reserves, The Option to Expand and Abandon

October 29, 2026 · 52 min

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Facebook (Meta) Lesson 1: Corporate Governance - The What, Why and What now?

October 29, 2026 · 53 min

This has not been a good year for Facebook, as its stock price has plummeted, and its earnings report from last week precipitated a new round of selling and finger-pointing. In this session, I start by putting the news in the most recent…
Session 22: The Dividend Trade off - Good and Bad Reasons for Paying Dividends

October 29, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

We spent this session setting up the trade off on dividends, starting with the argument that Miller/Modigliani made that dividends don't matter (in a world where investors are taxed at the same rate on dividends & capital gains & stock…
Facebook (Meta) Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

October 29, 2026 · 48 min

In this session, I use Facebook's most recent (and disappointing) quarterly earnings report to talk about accounting inconsistencies in categorizing expenses (into operating, financing and capital) at firms, and how this mis-categorization…
Session 23: Real Options Introduction

October 29, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

In today's class, I did a quick introduction to real options, setting up the intuitive rationale for real options. We covered the basics of options, starting with why real options are so attractive to analysts and investors: they allow you…
Facebook (Meta) Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

October 28, 2026 · 47 min

A good valuation is a bridge between stories and numbers, and Facebook's story through much of the decade has been simple and compelling, built around billions of intense users who share data about themselves, with that data being used to…
Session 21: Debt Design and Dividend Basics

October 28, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

In this class, we looked at the design principles for debt. In particular, we noted the allure of matching up debt cash flows to asset cash flows: it reduces default risk and increases debt capacity. We then looked at the process of…

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I teach corporate finance, valuation and investment philosophies at the Stern School of Business at New York University. I have online versions of all three courses here, as well as other finance-related videos. 1. The Corporate Finance Online playlist has an introductory video and 36 sessions that cover all of corporate finance (at least as I see it). 2. The Valuation playlist has 25 sessions that cover valuation approaches, issues and questions.3. The Investment Philosophies playlist has sessions that cover different investment philosophies.4. The Accounting and Statistics playlists reflect my quirky and unorthodox introductions to two disciplines that are critical to my valuation and corporate finance classes.5. The Blog Posts playlist has sessions that go wit my blog posts and reflect my standing as a dabbler, rather than expert, in all things finance-related. If you need the supporting material for any of the classes, check the links below.Links:Corporate finance materials: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/corpfin.htmlValuation materials: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/equity.htmlInvestment Philosophies: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/invphil.htmBooks: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/public.htmMy website: http://www.damodaran.com