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Why is The Stock Market future Oriented?

Stock prices go up or down because of future events

The Stock Market and hence stocks are “future oriented” because the valuation of any asset (including stocks) is the present value of the discounted cash flows. Let me give you a simple example.

Say that you there was a company that was going to pay you a dividend of $10 next year…what would you pay today for that dividend next year? You discount back the $10 at some rate and that’s what you would pay today.

But let’s say that you just learned that the dividend to be paid next year was only going to be $5. Now the valuation today would be different.

With stocks and The Stock Market there are many different valuation techniques…but almost all are forward looking. As things change for companies, the outlooks change and thus the present value of these companies also changes.

I hope this makes sense…

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