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Aswath Damodaran

Born

in Chennai, India

September 24, 1957

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Business & Investing, Social Sciences

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Aswath Damodaran is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University (Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education). He is well known as the author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance and Investment Management; as well as a provider of comprehensive data for valuation purposes.

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Data Update 7 for 2026: Debt and Taxes

In my fifth data update, I examined hurdle rates in 2025, and in my sixth data update, I looked at the profitability and return metrics for firms. Both hurdle rates and profitability metricsmcan be affected by how much debt companies choose to have in their financing structure, and it enters explicitly into my cost of capital calculations, both through the costs of equity/debt and the mix of th

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Average rating: 4.09 · 5,834 ratings · 317 reviews · 92 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit 3.97 avg rating — 2,777 ratings — published 2011 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business 4.07 avg rating — 928 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset 4.35 avg rating — 751 ratings — published 1995 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance 4.28 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Side of Valuation: Valuing Old Tech, New Tech, and New Economy Companies 4.25 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice (Wiley Series in Finance) 4.15 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Investment Philosophies: Successful Strategies and the Investors Who Made Them Work 4.06 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual 4.38 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Investment Fables: Exposing the Myths of "Can't Miss" Investments Strategies 4.03 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications 4.47 avg rating — 53 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Growth requires reinvestment.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

tags: investment

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“Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock, and Profit

tags: investment

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“A firm can have value only if it ultimately delivers earnings.”
― Aswath Damodaran, The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

tags: investment

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