Damodaran — Cost of Capital by Sector (US) vs EPS Momentum comparison

Unique

• US industry table with: Industry, # of firms, Beta, Cost of Equity, E/(D+E), Std. Dev. in stock, Cost of Debt, Tax Rate, After‑tax Cost of Debt, D/(D+E), and WACC.
• Direct Excel download (wacc.xls) for offline analysis.
• Annual ‘Data used as of January’ snapshot; site also links to global datasets hub.
• Methodology resources: lectures/notes on estimating beta, cost of equity, and WACC (bottom‑up betas, unlevering/re‑levering, ERP usage).

Unique

• Real-time US stock and ETF prices with advanced charting that overlays earnings, EM Scores, timing indicators and key fundamentals in a single view.
• Proprietary Earnings Momentum (EM) Score and Growth & Acceleration Earnings Matrix that score stocks on multi-quarter revenue, EPS, margins and free cash flow trends to surface true growth leaders.
• Estimates Revision Score (RS) that tracks changes in Wall Street earnings and sales forecasts to highlight positive and negative revision regimes.
• Timing Momentum framework combining five proprietary intraday signals—Trend, Price Momentum Slope, Relative Market Rank Slope, Powerdays and EMA 20/50—to help decide when to enter or exit positions.
• Post Earnings Announcement Drift (PEAD) “Stock Drift” model that uses the first 24 hours after earnings (pre/post-market and first trading session) plus up to 10 years of history to project a 90‑day price path with bands.
• Dozens of idea-generating Stock Scanners across fundamentals, price action and proprietary signals (Earnings Momentum, Timing Momentum, Revision Winners, Powerday breakouts, slope/volatility regimes).