# Prof. Aswath Damodaran's valuation of Amazon is featured

1 Faculty News October 31, 2014>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-31/amazon-seen-as-too-costly-without-margin-surge-chart-of-the-day.html) -- "Amazon.com Inc. would have to overcome a decade’s worth of falling profitability during the next 10 years to justify its share price, according to [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a finance professor at New York University. ...'If the operating margin stays at 7.5 percent or lower, you cannot get above the current stock price' in calculating Amazon’s value in a decade, Damodaran wrote on his Musings on Markets blog."

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