Damodoran's Valuation Guidelines

Aswath Damodaran, the renowned Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business, is a leading authority on valuation.  My connection with Prof. Damodaran is UCLA, where he received his MBA and Ph.D. in Finance.  I was an undergraduate student at UCLA at the time that Prof. Damodaran was pursuing his graduate degrees at UCLA.  Prof. Damodaran was the teaching assistant for one of my Economics courses, and I still have his TA handouts from that class.  I had the pleasure of saying hello to Prof. Damodaran a few years ago at a Valuation Symposium sponsored by the CFA Institute in New York and mentioned to him that I still had his notes!

If you have the opportunity to hear him as a speaker, please go.  You'll be glad you did.

SeekingAlpha.com has a recent article summarizing some of Prof. Damodaran's valuation rules of thumb that are very interesting.  Here's the link:  http://seekingalpha.com/article/1448791-aswath-damodaran-valuation-in-the-face-of-uncertainty

This article references another article that appears on the CFA Instutute Enterprising Investor Blog.  Here's the link:  http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2012/09/04/how-does-growth-investing-measure-up/

Here's a link to Prof. Damodaran's NYU Stern website:  http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/

Finally, here's a link to the NYU Stern faculty director page for Prof. Damodaran:  http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran

Enjoy!