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Factor analysis is a dimensionality reduction latent variable technique which replaces inter-correlating variables with a smaller number of continuous latent variables called factors. The factors are believed to be responsible for the inter-correlations. [For confirmatory factor analysis, please use the tag 'confirmatory-factor'. Also, the term "factor" of factor analysis should not be confused with "factor" as categorical predictor of a regression/ANOVA.]

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Does the stepwisefit function in MATLAB handle correlation between the factors?

You should use the method "Elastic Net", instead of the Stepwise method. You can put the highly correlated predictors in your multiple linear regression, however, you won't get accurate results from …
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