A new report authored by high frequency trading critic Eric Hunsader, founder of software firm Nanex, makes a key statement about the flash crash of 2010 that has been... Read More

If a company in your portfolio issues a profit warning should you sell, buy more or just stay invested? That is exactly the question I asked myself after experiencing quite... Read More

With literally billions of people around the world logged onto the various social media networking sites each day – why wouldn’t you want to place your business on the... Read More

In this session, Aswath Damodaran completed the discussion of loose ends (debt and employee options). We then looked at linking stories to numbers and closed off with our first... Read More

Seven Myths Of Boards Of Directors David F. Larcker Stanford University - Graduate School of Business Brian Tayan Stanford University - Graduate School of Business September 30, 2015 Rock Center for Corporate Governance... Read More

Karen Shaw Petrou memorandum to Federal Financial Analytics Clients on the mayhem in municipal bonds. TO: Federal Financial Analytics Clients FROM: Karen Shaw Petrou DATE: July 2, 2015 Transfixed as we are by... Read More

“In this study we investigate whether CEOs systematically profit from sales of large blocks of their personal shares which we define as sales involving at least one percent of... Read More

In this webcast, Aswath Damodaran looks at the process of valuing employee options and incorporating that value into the value of equity per share. See parts 1-8 here. Valuation Tools... Read More

  After an explosive 2017 (+19.4%) and first month of 2018 (+5.6%), the Easter Bunny came out and laid an egg last month (-2.7%). It is normal for financial markets... Read More

"I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good." —Adam Smith I Still remember the marvelous frisson on the Salomon Brothers trading... Read More