# Professor Aswath Damodaran's research on public companies in Japan is referenced

1 Faculty News May 12, 2017 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from the [Financial Times](https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/05/12/2188550/us-stocks-too-expensive-consider-japan/) -- "Using data from [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), which covers the full set of listed Japanese companies excluding financials, the EV/EBITDA ratio is about 7.4, compared to more than 12 for the US. (For Western Europe, the figure is about 9.4.)"

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