Aswath Damodaran
About the author
Aswath Damodaran is a professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business, where he holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and has taught since 1986. He has written widely used texts on valuation, corporate finance and investment management, and he publishes free valuation data sets, online classes and the Musings on Markets blog. He trained at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and earned his PhD in finance at UCLA.
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Book on the list
Memos, letters and research
Free industry-level data on costs of capital, margins, multiples, reinvestment and payouts, plus Damodaran's country risk premiums and monthly implied equity risk premium. The standard free source for discount-rate and comparables inputs.
Short-format video versions of Damodaran's NYU MBA classes in valuation and corporate finance, with slides and post-class tests. The best free valuation course available, and it starts from first principles.
Damodaran's blog, where he values companies in public, from IPO candidates to megacaps, and explains what each new market episode means for risk premiums, discount rates and pricing.