The stock market does represent people's feelings, true, but people's feelings are influenced by metrics (with reason). Sure growth investing strategies look f

The stock market does represent people's feelings, true, but people's feelings are influenced by metrics (with reason). Sure growth investing strategies look for stocks of companies that will grow quickly but pay little in dividends. But value investing often looks for companies which have solid metrics and will pay solid dividends which is a huge part of investing after all.