profit vs value

profit

noun
  • Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. 

verb
  • To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody). 

  • To take advantage of, exploit, use. 

  • To benefit, gain. 

value

noun
  • The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else. 

  • The degree of importance given to something. 

  • The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc. 

  • The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically, the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, etc. 

  • The relative duration of a musical note. 

  • That which is valued or highly esteemed, such as one's morals, morality, or belief system. 

  • The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable. 

  • Any definite numerical quantity or other mathematical object, determined by being measured, computed, or otherwise defined. 

  • Precise meaning; import. 

verb
  • To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. 

  • To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. 

  • To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. 

  • To hold dear. 

How often have the words profit and value occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )