Session 24: IPO Closure and Introduction to Real Options @AswathDamodaranonValuation
Session 24: IPO Closure and Introduction to Real Options  @AswathDamodaranonValuation
Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this quiz-shortened session, we moved on to first finishing our discussion of IPOs (and alternatives). If you are interested, I have a post on how the IPO process will shake out in future years:
aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2019/10/disrupting-ipo-process-challenging.html
We then moved on to looking at real options in corporate finance and valuation. We started by looking at the basic option pricing models, and the ingredients that make for real option applications - that there be an option at play (with an underling asset and contingent cash flows).

Start of the class test: nyu.box.com/s/jglnvbeqs230brkg7omajagyffgg8d4p
Slides: nyu.box.com/s/7b3ril0e7dh7vpuqtdhygh9xw2u13ize
Post class test: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/eqnotes/postclass/session24Ftest.pdf
Post class solution: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/eqnotes/postclass/session24Fsoln.pdf
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