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

    Written by Aswath Damodaran

    Narrated by Matthew Boston

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    An accessible, and intuitive, guide to stock valuation

    Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is to buy, sell, or hold. In The Little Book of Valuation, expert Aswath Damodaran explains the techniques in language that any investor can understand, so you can make better investment decisions when reviewing stock research reports and engaging in independent efforts to value and pick stocks.

    In this book Damodaran distills the fundamentals of valuation, without glossing over or ignoring key concepts, and develops models that you can easily understand and use. Along the way, he covers various valuation approaches from intrinsic or discounted cash flow valuation and multiples or relative valuation to some elements of real option valuation.

    Written with the individual investor in mind, this reliable guide will not only help you value a company quickly, but will also help you make sense of valuations done by others or found in comprehensive equity research reports.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJul 30, 2019
    ISBN9781469075334

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    • 5/5
      Clearly I'm not up to the level of this book; there's lots I still have to learn about this business and I do plan to revisit this book after I get a better hold on this subject.Having said, I did learn quite a few things about valuation - intrinsic vs relative, being the main categories there are towards the valuation of a company. The author explanation about how banks, tech/pharma and manufacturing companies are all very different types of companies. But after doing for some accounting practices (honestly, I didn't understand what those were), apparently, they're all on the same field and the value of any company rests on three ingredients: cash flows from existing assets, the expected growth in these cash flows, and the discount rate / uncertainty that reflects the risk in those cash flows.The core of the book seemed to be about Discounted Cash Flow - again one of those things that I'd like a book that teaches DCF from the very basics.Giving a 5-star since this book definitely taught me some things and I'm encouraged to learn more about it.