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by rory 1972 days ago
Do investors really think they can predict the income of a company in the 2070s with ANY degree of accuracy? None of the top five companies by market cap even existed 50 years ago.
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That's my point - with high ("normal") interest rates, your horizon becomes shorter, what happens in 30+ years doesn't really matter, and the fundamental value of a share should become visible more quickly, so the uncertainty now is lower. With rates near zero, what happens in 50 years still matters, so who knows what the share should be worth today?