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Valuation Lecture 13: DFC Valuation Tests

This video is a part of online course on Valuation by Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU. This lecture discusses:

  • A corporate governance discount
  • The R&D effect
  • The distress factor
  • Lesson: Increasing growth is not always a value creating option
  • Lesson: Financial leverage is a double-edged sword
  • Dealing with decline and distress
  • Adjusting the value of LVS for distress
  • Lesson: Truncation risk can come in many ways
  • Valuing financial service companies
  • Valuing cyclical and commodity companies

The class is currently being taught by Prof. Aswath Damodaran at the NYU’s Stern Business School.

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Valuation by Damodaran

18 lessons

Lessons

1
Valuation Lecture 3: DCF, FCFE, and FCFF
2
Valuation Lecture 4: Equity Risk Premiums
3
Valuation Lecture 6: Beta and Cost of Capital Tests
4
Valuation Lecture 7: Working with Cash Flows
5
Valuation Lecture 8: Growth Tests and Estimating Growth
6
Valuation Lecture 9: Estimating Growth Rates
7
Valuation Lecture 10: Estimating Terminal Value
8
Valuation Lecture 11: Tying the Loose Ends
9
Valuation Lecture 12: Dark Side of Valuation
10
Valuation Lecture 13: DFC Valuation Tests
11
Valuation Lecture 14: Advanced Valuation
12
Valuation Lecture 16: Relative Valuation
13
Valuation Lecture 17: Analyzing Multiples
14
Valuation Lecture 18: Finding Comparables
15
Valuation Lecture 19: Relative and Private Company Valuation
16
Valuation Lecture 20: Private Company Valuation and Real Options
17
Valuation Lecture 21: Real Options - The Option to Delay
18
Valuation Lecture 22: Option to Expand and Option to Abandon
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