Add StockProfitCalculator (#5793)

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Hardik Pawar
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package com.thealgorithms.greedyalgorithms;
/**
* The StockProfitCalculator class provides a method to calculate the maximum profit
* that can be made from a single buy and sell of one share of stock.
* The approach uses a greedy algorithm to efficiently determine the maximum profit.
*
* @author Hardvan
*/
public final class StockProfitCalculator {
private StockProfitCalculator() {
}
/**
* Calculates the maximum profit from a list of stock prices.
*
* @param prices an array of integers representing the stock prices on different days
* @return the maximum profit that can be achieved from a single buy and sell
* transaction, or 0 if no profit can be made
*/
public static int maxProfit(int[] prices) {
if (prices == null || prices.length == 0) {
return 0;
}
int minPrice = prices[0];
int maxProfit = 0;
for (int price : prices) {
minPrice = Math.min(price, minPrice);
maxProfit = Math.max(price - minPrice, maxProfit);
}
return maxProfit;
}
}