# Professor Aswath Damodaran’s framework for valuing cyclical and commodity companies is spotlighted

1 Faculty News April 20, 2020 ![Seeking Alpha logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030729.jpg?itok=lsJdjgi0)>

Excerpt from [Seeking Alpha](https://seekingalpha.com/article/4338585-western-forest-products-inc-small-and-beautiful-bargain-stock) -- "The framework proposed by Prof. [Damodaran](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) offers a more nuanced approach to normalization which we have applied to the financial performance of Western Forest Products Inc. ("WEF") (OTC:OTCPK:WFSTF),over the past ten years to see where we stand on a mid-cycle valuation and the results point to a compelling entry point for contrarian value investors."

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