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Aswath Damodaran
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Dec 3, 2025
Trillion dollar Market Caps: Fairy Tale Pricing or Great Businesses?
The creator discusses the historical context of companies reaching trillion-dollar market capitalizations, using Nvidia's recent $5 trillion valuation as a focal point. He acknowledges both the skepticism of value investors and the rationalizations of AI true believers, stating his personal view that Nvidia is currently overpriced but was undervalued at earlier points. The video aims to provide a tool for viewers to make their own judgments on such valuations.
Apr 30, 2025
Session 25: Valuation - The Final Frontier!
The creator discusses the key drivers of company valuation: revenue growth, operating margins, and sales to capital ratio. He highlights the "Mag Seven" companies as examples of firms that excel in all three areas at scale. The discussion then shifts to General Motors (GM) as a case study, questioning its potential for high growth.
Apr 28, 2025
Session 26: Distressed Equity as an Option and Acquisition Valuation
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Apr 28, 2025
Session 24: Closure on Dividends and First Steps on Valuation
The creator discusses dividend cuts and how companies can manage them, using BP as an example of a company that handled a dividend problem poorly by delaying action. The discussion then shifts to how companies can package dividend cuts with other announcements, such as earnings declines or investment plans, to mitigate negative market reactions.
Apr 20, 2025
Buy the Dip? The Allure and Dangers of Contrarian Investing
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Apr 14, 2025
Session 22: Pricing Closure and Asset-based Valuation/Pricing
The creator discusses asset-based valuation, explaining that valuing a company in pieces can be more precise than valuing it as a whole, but requires more information. The discussion touches on the trade-offs and conditions under which valuing in pieces might be preferred, including the impact of synergies.
Apr 14, 2025
Session 20: Pricing Closure and Asset-based Valuation/Pricing
Aswath Damodaran uses a Price-to-Book vs. ROE regression to analyze the 100 largest US stocks, identifying Oracle as a rare undervalued opportunity while labeling MicroStrategy a 'basket case' and flagging several major tech names as overvalued.
Mar 31, 2025
Session 16: The Debt Equity Tradeoff
The creator discusses upcoming quizzes, project deadlines, and the final exam format for the course. He then transitions to the core topic of the class: the debt-equity tradeoff, explaining that businesses must decide whether to use borrowed money or their own capital, and acknowledging the historical and emotional aspects associated with debt.
Mar 19, 2025
Session 15: Celsius Case Analysis, Real Options and Investment Post-mortems
Aswath Damodaran performs a valuation analysis on a Celsius expansion project, concluding that the investment is marginal or negative NPV and should be rejected.
Mar 15, 2025
Investing Politics: Making Sense of Trump, Tariffs and Tesla!
The creator discusses the intersection of politics and investing, focusing on how forces like globalization and disruption have shaped the current economic and political landscape. He aims to provide a balanced perspective, acknowledging the complexities and shades of gray in these issues, rather than taking extreme stances.
Mar 12, 2025
Session 13: Stock-based Compensation and Stories in Valuation
Aswath Damodaran explains the necessity of connecting qualitative business stories to quantitative valuation models, using Reddit's advertising-based business as a primary example.
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