Investment valuation : tools and techniques for determining the value of any asset /
Aswath Damodaran.
- 3rd ed.
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2012.
- xv, 974 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Wiley finance series. .
.Previous edition: c2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 939-953) and index.
Introduction to Valuation -- Approaches to Valuation -- Understanding Financial Statements -- The Basics of Risk -- Option Pricing Theory and Models -- Market Efficiency-Definition, Tests, and Evidence -- Riskless Rates and Risk Premiums -- Estimating Risk Parameters and Costs of Financing -- Measuring Earnings -- From Earnings to Cash Flows -- Estimating Growth -- Closure in Valuation: Estimating Terminal Value -- Dividend Discount Models -- Free Cash Flow to Equity Discount Models -- Firm Valuation: Cost of Capital and Adjusted Present Value Approaches -- Estimating Equity Value per Share -- Fundamental Principles of Relative Valuation -- Earnings Multiples -- Book Value Multiples -- Revenue Multiples and Sector-Specific Multiples -- Valuing Financial Service Firms -- Valuing Firms with Negative or Abnormal Earnings -- Valuing Young or Start-Up Firms -- Valuing Private Firms -- Aquisitions and Takeovers -- Valuing Real Estate -- Valuing Other Assets -- The Option to Delay and Valuation Implications -- The Options to Expand and to Abandon: Valuation Implications -- Valuing Equity in Distressed Firms -- Value Enhancement: A Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Framework -- Value Enhancement: Economic Value Added, Cash Flow Return on Investment, and Other Tools -- Probabilistic Approaches in Valuation: Scenario Analysis, Decision Trees, and Simulations -- .Overview and Conclusion