Consider a firm whose shareholders have agreed that, as legal owners of the firm, they wish to have the firm managed in such way as to have the stock price as high as possible. What would be the goal of such an objective?

		To maximize the number of shareholders
		To maximize the current profits as shown on the income statement
		To maximize the wealth of all stakeholders
		To maximize the firm's contributions to the society at large
		To maximize the wealth of shareholders