Does anyone know how Prof. Damodaran computes quarterly changes in earnings for the S&P 500 in the spreadsheet acctbeta.xls (http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/accbeta.xls)?

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anonymous · Answer

Basically he is doin regression and the information that is provided in the the excel sheet is historical information that can be found out on Yahoo finance also http://in.finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^GSPC

anonymous · Answer

Thank you for your reply. Might you be able to provide me with an equation/set of equations that computes the earnings change for the S&P 500 for Q2 in 1998 (-0.50%) as reported in Damodaran's spreadsheet ( http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/accbeta.xls)?

anonymous · Answer

sure will tell u about it too

anonymous · Answer

Thank you very much. I look forward to seeing the calculation.

anonymous · Answer

yeah sure will try to look into for his calculation techniques!!

anonymous · Answer

Fantastic.