About its creators

Aswath Damodaran is a professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Anant Sundaram is a professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Anant and Aswath teach valuation and corporate finance classes to MBAs and executives.

The software was coded by Xiandong Ren, 2011 graduate of the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College

 © 2011 Damodaran & Sundaram. All Rights Reserved

About this app

uValue is a corporate valuation app for the iPad. The app helps you value businesses using conceptually rigorous, yet practical, widely-used tools. You can value firms using  the ‘weighted average cost of capital’ (WACC, or 'cost of capital') approach, the ‘adjusted present value’ (APV) approach, the ‘dividend growth model’ (DGM), or real option valuation (ROV) techniques.

The app is free. We want anyone who is keen to do a good valuation, anywhere, to have access to self-contained, fully-functional tools to do so. Time and again, we see that poor investment decisions start with poor valuations. Consequently, uValue is fundamentally educational in its intent — it comes with three important features: pop-up boxes that define and explain every input or concept, a uValue Companion that is a mini-textbook on valuation, and links to a data set that give you industry data benchmarks.

uValue presumes basic familiarity with financial statements. With the WACC and the APV models, you can also choose between 'Detailed' or 'Simple' versions. (There is a section that walks you through how to make choices if you're not sure.) You do have to agree to a disclaimer within the app before you can use it.

We hope you have fun with uValue, and enjoy using it!

App details

  1. Latest version: uValue 1.0, last updated on May 23, 2011.
  2. Rating: 4+
  3. Price: Free
  4. Primary category: Finance
  5. Secondary category: Business
  6. Support email: uValueapp@gmail.com
  7. Features we are currently working on: We are working on a relative valuation module, where you can value a company using multiples, and a financial tools module that will allow you to calculate present values of various cash flow streams such as annuities, perpetuities, and bonds, as well as an ROIC estimator and a lease converter.