When trying to find a culprit for the bear market in stocks this year, investors often point to the surging yields on U.S. Treasury bonds. But that’s only part of the story. Today Jack is lucky to speak to Dr. Aswath Damodaran, professor of valuation and corporate finance at NYU Stern School of Business, who is a pioneer in the field of valuation. Damodaran explains how the intrinsic value of a stocks is its future cash flows discounted back to the present with a “discount rate,” which is the sum of a risk-free rate on a Treasury bond and an “equity risk premium.” Damodaran notes that, in addition to risk-free rates surging higher, equity risk premia have expanded significantly. Damodaran also shares his views on inflation, the Federal Reserve, as well as currencies and crypto. Farley aFilmed on September 9, 2022.
Data sets can be found on Aswath Damodaran’s website: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
Lectures and presentations can be found on Aswath Damodaran’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/AswathDamodaranonValuation
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00:00 Introduction
00:35 The "Sleep Test"
03:40 Inflation's Impact on Equity Valuations
19:43 Equity Duration
40:41 Cost of Capital for Individual Companies
44:17 Commodity & Energy Stocks
52:06 How Liquidity Increases Asset Values
59:53 Crypto, Currencies, and Commodities: Why They Are Impossible To Truly Value
1:11:29 Closing Thoughts On Overconfidence
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