# Prof. Aswath Damodaran explains why some commodity stocks are a good investment

1 Faculty News June 26, 2013 ![CNBC logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_034412.gif?itok=MRidxYS3)>

Excerpt from [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/id/100846586) -- "'I think in a sense you've got to play the cycles, commodity-price cycles and economic cycles, so I would go to commodity companies and cyclical companies,' he said. 'Not all of them are cheap, but I think your best chance of finding bargains are in those segments.'"

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