Valuing Young Growth Companies

From the 2011 Security Analysis and the Search for Value conference

Professor Aswath Damodaran explains that good investors of all stripes care about value, and while traditional value investors look for value in a company’s existing assets, growth investors generally look for value in a company’s expected future growth. In this presentation, Damodaran addresses the challenges and risks of valuing young growth companies, including their typically limited histories, small revenues along with big operating losses, and propensity for failure. Using discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, he considers the case of Amazon’s stock in its earliest days, and offers guidance for estimating some of the most important inputs into the DCF model and arriving at a fair valuation.



Speaker

Photo of Aswath Damodaran

Aswath Damodaran is professor of finance and David Margolis Teaching Fellow at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He has authored articles in such publications as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Finance. Additionally, Professor Damodaran is the author of a number of books and is the co-editor of the book Investment Management with Peter Bernstein. He is a five-time recipient of the Stern School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award (awarded by the graduating class) and was the youngest winner of the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 1990. Professor Damodaran holds MBA and PhD degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles.

This information is accurate as of the date of recording.

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Topic

  • Equity Investments

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Details

Length : 37min
Posted : 2/14/2012
Recorded On : 11/29/2011
CE Credits : .5 CE
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