Indian-American finance academic, born in 1957, who teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business.
His valuation textbooks and freely published datasets are the default reference used across academia, banking and investing.
12 books of their own · 65 articles
Co-edited volume with Peter L. Bernstein.
Recommended by: Rational Capital Investment Fund
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Risk as a source of value: how firms measure it and take the risks they suit.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Damodaran on Valuation: Security Analysis for Investment and Corporate Finance | – | 1994 | T4 | – |
Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset | – | 1995 | – | |
Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice | – | 1997 | T4 | – |
Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual | – | 1998 | T4 | – |
Investment Management | Co-edited volume with Peter L. Bernstein. | 1998 | – | |
The Dark Side of Valuation | – | 2001 | T4 | Rational Capital Investment Fund |
Investment Philosophies | – | 2003 | – | |
Investment Fables: Exposing the Myths of "Can't Miss" Investment Strategies | – | 2004 | Mohnish Pabrai | |
Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management | Risk as a source of value: how firms measure it and take the risks they suit. | 2007 | T4 | – |
The Little Book of Valuation | – | 2011 | T4 | Mohnish Pabrai |
Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business | – | 2017 | T4 | – |
| The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications | – | 2024 | T4 | – |
| Damodaran Online: Data (free industry datasets, updated annually) | NYU Stern School of Business | Article | 2026 |
| Damodaran Online: Research and Working Papers | NYU Stern School of Business | Article | 2026 |
| ESG Is Beyond Redemption: May It RIP | Financial Times | Op-ed | 2023 |
| A COVID Diary: Searching for Investment Serenity | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2020 |
| Value Investing: Requiem, Rebirth or Reincarnation | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2020 |
| The Value of ESG: Doing Good or Sounding Good? | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2020 |
| Country Risk: The 2020 Edition | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2020 |
| Equity Risk Premiums: The 2020 Edition | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2020 |
| The Big Market Delusion: Valuation and Investment Implications | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2020 |
| The Equity Risk Premium: The 2015 Edition | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2015 |
| Country Risk: The 2015 Edition | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2015 |
| Tesla: Anatomy of a Run Up | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2014 |
| The Equity Risk Premium: The 2014 Edition | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2014 |
| Uber Isn't Worth $17 Billion | FiveThirtyEight | Article | 2014 |
| The Equity Risk Premium: The 2013 Edition | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2013 |
| Making sense of Apple's rollercoaster ride | CNN / Financial Times | Article | 2013 |
| Unlike the US tax code, Apple is completely rational | CNN / Financial Times | Article | 2013 |
| Equity Risk Premiums (ERP) 2012 | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2012 |
| Was Facebook's botched IPO a conspiracy? | CNN | Article | 2012 |
| Equity Risk Premiums (ERP) 2011 | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2011 |
| Equity Risk Premiums: Post-Crisis Edition | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2009 |
| Valuing Financial Service Firms (2009 edition) | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2009 |
| Valuing Declining and Distressed Companies (2009 edition) | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2009 |
| The Equity Risk Premium (2008 edition) | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | 2008 |
| Valuing Commodity and Cyclical Companies | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Young and Start-up Companies | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Emerging Market Companies | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Companies with Intangible Assets | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing the Octopus: The Multinational, Multibusiness Company | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Leases, Debt and Value | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Estimating Riskfree Rates | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Multiple Claims on Equity | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| The Origins of Growth | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Measuring Returns: ROE, ROC and ROIC | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| A Survey Paper on Valuation | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Simulations, Decision Trees and Scenario Analysis: Probabilistic Approaches to Risk | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Value at Risk (VaR) | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| To Hedge or Not to Hedge? That Is the Question | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Exploiting Risk: A Strategic View of Risk Management | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Marketability and Value: The Illiquidity Discount | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| The Value of Cash, Cross Holdings and Other Non-operating Assets | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| The Value of Control | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Employee Stock Options, Restricted Stock and Value | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| The Value of Synergy | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Value and Risk: Beyond Betas | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Measuring Company Risk Exposure to Country Risk | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Dividends and Taxes | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Information Transparency and Value: Can You Value What You Cannot See? | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Distressed Firms | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| The Dark Side of Valuation | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Real Option Applications in Corporate Finance and Valuation | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Private Firms | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Financial Service Firms | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuing Acquisitions | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Valuation Multiples: First Principles | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Estimating Risk Parameters | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Dealing with Operating Leases | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Dealing with R&D Expenses | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Financing Innovations | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Beyond Dividends | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Value Enhancement: Back to Basics | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Into the Abyss: What If Nothing Is Riskfree? | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| A New Risky World Order: Unstable Risk Premiums and Implications for Practice | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Comatose Markets: What If Liquidity Is Not the Norm? | NYU Stern working paper / SSRN | Research paper | |
| Musings on Markets (blog archive, 2008-present) | Musings on Markets | Article |