profit vs advantage

profit and advantage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
profit	Yes	No	Yes	No
advantage	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, advantage is a hypernym of profit; that is, advantage is a word with a broader meaning than profit:

Other hypernyms of profit include vantage.

profit (noun)	advantage (noun)
the advantageous quality of being beneficial	the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)	benefit resulting from some event or action
	(tennis) first point scored after deuce

profit (verb)	advantage (verb)
make a profit; gain money or materially	give an advantage to
derive a benefit from