# Prof. Aswath Damodaran's blog post on Yahoo and Alibaba is featured

1 Faculty News October 2, 2014>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-02/yahoo-seen-as-walking-dead-after-alibaba-ipo-chart-of-the-day.html) -- "Yesterday’s gap was $9.23 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shortfall reflects an estimate by [Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), the author of four books on company valuation, that Yahoo has $8.02 billion in cash. The discount is a sign of 'investor concerns, merited or not, that Yahoo’s management might do something senseless with the cash,' he wrote two days ago in a posting on his Musings on Markets blog."

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