# Prof. Aswath Damodaran on Facebook's valuation

1 Faculty News May 11, 2012 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304543904577394113850246518.html?mod=googlenews_wsj) -- "[Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a finance professor at New York University and an expert on valuation, says Facebook probably is fairly valued at around $75 billion to $80 billion, assuming its revenues and earnings keep rising briskly and it can keep profit margins near 30%."

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