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Question:

Profit maximization is a very popular assumption in several economics textbooks and is presented as the ultimate goal of afor profitfirm. In finance, however, you will see, time after time, that the ultimate goal of the manager is to maximize the stock price.

One may think that they imply the same so that if a company is a profit maximizer, this company's stock price will automatically be maximized. Alternatively, one might believe that one is superior to the other.

Please discuss if profit maximization impliesstock price maximization and they may be used interchangeably or they are quite different concepts and one is superior to the other. You may use your textbook, as well as other web sources to build your point.