Session 7: Cost of Capital Closure and First Steps on Cash Flows

Podcast: Aswath Damodaran · Aswath Damodaran

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

In today’s class, we started with computing debt ratios for companies and how to deal with hybrid securities.. If you are interested in getting updated default spreads (on the cheap or free), try the Federal Reserve site in St. Louis: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/32297 These are spreads on indices created by rating, updated daily. Neat, right? We then moved on to getting the base year's earnings right and explored several issues: 1. To get updated numbers, you should be using either trailing 12 month numbers or complete the current year with forecasted numbers. In either case, yo...