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That’s like asking whether you’d rather have a pizza with the same diameter but twice the area, or a pizza with twice the diameter but the same area. It makes no sense.

Stock prices were, are, and will always be rough approximations of the NPV of future profits. It’s not perfect, of course, but it’s roughly true.

Doubling revenue in any remotely sustainable way will have way more than a 2x impact on stock price because of exponential growth. So yeah, as a stockhodler, you’d rather double revenue with flat stock price because you’d buy the crap out of the stock when you realize the market has not factored revenue growth in to pricing.

Imagining that public companies care about stock price more than revenue is literally like saying a hungry customer care more about pizza radius than area.





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