Aswath Damodaran
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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 ......
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Michael Dell's Conflicted Buyout
Let’s say that you are interested in selling your house and hire a realtor, and that the realtor comes back ......
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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 ......
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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 ......
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Michael Dell's Conflicted Buyout
Let’s say that you are interested in selling your house and hire a realtor, and that the realtor comes back ......
TMT
The year in review: Apple's universe?
As the year winds to a close, I don't think that there can be much debate that this was Apple's ......
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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. ......
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Accretive (Dilutive) Deals can be bad (good) deals
Analysts, investors and journalists who follow stocks have an obsessive focus on earnings per share, what it is now and ......
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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 ......
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How much is growth worth?
In my last post, I looked at the price being paid for growth by valuing the assets in place in ......
