Discounted Cash Flow Valuations (DCF): Academic Exercise, Sales Pitch or Investor Tool?

Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) valuation is simple at its core, yet often intimidates many says Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University.  You need one only theory to value companies that is based on the equation that the value of an asset is the value of the expected cash flows over its lifetime, adjusted for risk and the time value of money.

To learn how to strip away the layers of complexity built into valuation over the decades and return to this simple equation, click the link below.

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