Aswath Damodaran, NYU Stern School of Business

Academic New York pages.stern.nyu.edu

Aswath Damodaran teaches corporate finance and valuation at NYU's Stern School of Business and gives away nearly everything he produces: datasets, spreadsheets, lecture webcasts and a long-running blog. His annual data updates and equity risk premium estimates are standard inputs for analysts building discount rates.

What they publish

Damodaran Online: Data Sets

Essential

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.

Data Intermediate Full refresh every January, with some series (implied equity risk premium, country risk) updated during the year

Damodaran's Free Online Valuation and Corporate Finance Classes

Essential

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.

Course Foundational Evergreen recorded classes; MBA semester classes are also webcast as taught

Musings on Markets

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.

Research Intermediate Several posts a month since September 2008, plus a January and February run of annual data updates

Books by their people

The Corporate Life Cycle Aswath Damodaran