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Here's why this has been so attractive to so many investors in recent years.

Historically, investing in a basket of stocks that score well on this measure

has performed about 15, 16 percent total returns per year since the early 90s.

It's a pretty shocking margin.

It's massive.

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast.

I'm Jack Howe.

And the voice you just heard, that's Jared Woodard. He's the head of the

Research Investment Committee at B of A Securities. He's talking here about investing in quality stocks.

Now might be a great time to invest in quality stocks. We'll talk about why. The problem is

Wall Street can't seem to agree on a definition of quality.

There are a lot of different funds out there that call themselves quality funds and their

methodologies differ widely. Jared has studied the matter and found what he thinks is the best

way to search for quality stocks. I'll give you a hint. It rhymes with shmishmashmo.

It's free cash flow. We'll talk about that. And first we'll say a few words about rip-roaring

gains for metals in 2025. And we'll look at where we could be headed in 2006.

Listening in is our audio producer, Alexis Moore. Hi, Lexus.

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