Book-review: The Little Book of Valuation, Damodaran

I did not expect to learn anything new here, but (re-) reading the very basics can work wonders, sometimes.

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(as in my previous book review I focus more on my learnings/insights/personal summary vs writing style etc.)

Damodaran is the institution on valuation and my curriculum included many referenced textbooks.

I rarely used them during studies, because my profs provided enough and very detailed materials, thus I mostly used textbooks for writing thesises.

I got this book together with two other Damodaran books and this is the smallest and should be the easiest and most basic read.

I did not expect to learn anything new here, but (re-) reading the very basics can work wonders, sometimes.

I enjoyed the sections on multiples, transforming formulas into other multiples and the focus on companion variables for multiples. From a simple DDM model, you can derive a PE or P/B formula.

Multiple	Companion variable
P/E	growth rate
P/BV	ROE
P/S	Net margin
EV/Ebitda	Reinvestment rate
EV/Capital	Return on capital
EV/Sales	After-tax operating margin

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