What really matters in investing?

Technology has created an information overload. Investors can struggle with what matters and what might be irrelevant: the Federal Reserve's interest rate cycle, midterm elections, the latest numbers on the economy, market data and so on. While these are valuable inputs, what really matters for the prices of financial assets is cash flows. In other words, a company's ability to generate cash and use it to fund future growth is what matters.


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