The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit

One valuation book stands out as withstanding the test of time among investors and students of financial markets: Investment Valuation. That book discusses how best to value companies and securities. Damodaran's other books on valuation are directed primarily at analysts and practitioners, whose interests lie primarily in the practice of valuation. Consequently, they are filled with detail that are useful to trained financial analysts, but not to individual investors. The average investor has a less intense need for valuation details and is more interested in learning valuation basics that he or she can apply quickly to investments-and to fundamental research reports they read about companies.

In The Little Book of Valuation, Prof. Aswath Damodaran have distil the fundamentals of valuation (without glossing over or ignoring key components) and develop models that investors can understand easily and use quickly (with relatively few inputs). In the process, he has covered all of the different approaches - intrinsic or discounted cash flow valuation, multiples or relative valuation and even some elements of real option valuation. Readers will not only value a company quickly but will also be able to look at valuations done by others or equity research reports and discern whether they make sense.

About the Author
Aswath Damodaran (New York, NY) is Professor of Finance at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching, including the NYU university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, and was named one of the nation's top business school teachers by Business Week in 1994. In addition, Damodaran teaches training courses in corporate finance and valuation at many leading investment banks. His publications include Damodaran on Valuation; Investment Valuation; Corporate Finance; Investment Management; and Applied Corporate Finance, all published by Wiley, and The Dark Side of Valuation.

Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Hit the Ground Running: Valuation Basics.

Chapter One Value: More Than a Number!
Chapter Two Power Tools of the Trade.
Chapter Three Yes, Virginia, Every Asset has an Intrinsic Value.
Chapter Four It's all Relative!

From Cradle to Grave: Life Cycle and Valuation.

Chapter Five Promise Aplenty.
Chapter Six Growing Pains.
Chapter Seven Valuation Viagra.
Chapter Eight Doomsday.

Breaking the Mold: Special Situations in Valuation.

Chapter Nine Bank on It.
Chapter Ten Roller-Coaster Investing.
Chapter Eleven Invisible Value.
Conclusion Rules for the Road.