# Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on corporate profits is spotlighted

1 Faculty News February 19, 2019 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2019/02/19/the-top-most-profitable-industries-and-their-impact-on-low-income-people/#3852e1baa9c6) -- "If you really want to get hot under the collar, consider the work of [Aswath Damodaran](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. In trying to research profits of the pharmaceutical industry for a piece I was writing, I stumbled across some marvelous tables that Damodaran regularly updates, looking at the average financial performance of nearly 100 industries."

[Read more](https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2019/02/19/the-top-most-profitable-industries-and-their-impact-on-low-income-people/#3852e1baa9c6)