dividends and cash balances

Feb 24

Data Update 8 for 2026: Time for Harvesting - Dividends and Buybacks

Aswath Damodaran

In the data update posts this year, I have wended my way from the macro (equities collectives, the bond market and other asset classes) to the micro, starting with hurdle rates and returns in posts five and six and the debt/equity choice in my seventh post. In this post, I will look at the...

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Jul 18 2025

To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!

Aswath Damodaran

In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written about in the past. The first is the role that cash holdings play in a business, an extension of the dividend policy question, with an examination of why businesses often should not pay out what they...

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