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Discounted cash flow
What is a company worth if I ignore the market entirely?
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Valuation — full NYU course, free ↗Aswath Damodaran, NYU Stern
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Core · Module 06
The discipline of turning a story about a business into a number — and being honest about how much of the number is the story.
By the end of this module
You can build a defensible valuation and identify which single assumption drives the answer.
What is a company worth if I ignore the market entirely?
Aswath Damodaran, NYU Stern
Lecture videos, slides, spreadsheets, and every past exam. Unmatched.
What discount rate is defensible, and why is it usually wrong?
When is a P/E ratio informative rather than decorative?
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