Aswath Damodaran
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Data 2017 Update 1: The Promise and Perils of Data
October 11, 2026 · 23 minLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Session 17: More excursions on the Dark Side of Valuation
October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 26 minIn today’s session, we continued on the dark side of valuation with a look at mature companies on the verge of transitions, and how you have to value the status quo company and the restructured one to make a judgment on investing in it. We…
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Session 15: The Tesla Bot Case and Side Benefits/Costs in Projects
October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 35 minThe bulk of this session was spent discussing the Tesla Bot case (see below for the case) and the broader implications for investment and valuation. In the last 30 minutes of class, we turned our attention to the side costs and side…
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Active Investing: Rest in Peace or Resurgent Force?
October 10, 2026 · 27 minWhen Jack Bogle started the Vanguard 500 Index fund in 1975, I am sure that he never visualized how successful he would be. In the last few decades, passive investing has widened its offerings (to include ETFs and other markets) and has…
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Session 16: Closure on Investment Analysis
October 10, 2026 · 55 minIn this quiz shortened session, after the quiz, we looked at the final pieces on investment analysis, starting with side benefits from projects (from small pluses to synergy in acquisitions). We also looked at optionality in projects…
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Session 16: Tying up Intrinsic Value
October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 0 minIn this session, after the second quiz, we wrapped up our discussion of intrinsic valuation. For decades, we have valued banks using the dividend discount model, simply because getting cash flows is so difficult, but that approach is built…
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Session 18: Tying up Intrinsic Value
October 9, 2026 · 50 minIn this session, after the second quiz, we wrapped up our discussion of intrinsic valuation. For decades, we have valued banks using the dividend discount model, simply because getting cash flows is so difficult, but that approach is built…
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Session 23: The Options to Expand and Abandon, Financial Flexibility and Distressed Equity
October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 34 minWe started this class by looking at the option to expand, where your capacity to enter or expand into new (big) markets can justify up-front bad investments and then at the option to abandon poorly performing investments. We then valued…
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Session 17: The Financing Mix Trade off
October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 33 minIn this class, we started our discussion of the financing question by drawing the line between debt and equity: fixed versus residual claims, no control versus control, and then used a life cycle view of a company to talk about how much it…
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Session 22: The Option to Delay
October 8, 2026 · 59 minIn this shortened session after the webcast, we looked at the option to delay and applied it to valuing patents and undeveloped natural resource reserves.Slides: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/podcasts/valfall16/valsession22.pdfPost…
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Session 19: First Steps on Pricing
October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 25 minWe started the class by setting the stage of pricing companies, contrasting the pricing process with the value process. The rest of the class was our first foray into pricing, with why pricing is so much more common than intrinsic value…
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Terminal Value Myth 5: The Terminal value ate my DCF!
October 8, 2026 · 12 minIn a DCF of a business, the terminal value will account for a large proportion of value and this is viewed by some as a flaw in DCF and by others as a license to not worry about assumptions made during growth periods. Both presumptions are…