A merger could not have been executed without all of this known to both parties ahead of time. It's called due diligence. Not that hub had any choice anyway. The shares would have to have been agreed upon prior to execution IMO. Do you know of anyone who would sell their company into a merger, let it complete, and not know the details of what they were getting out of it? Those numbers were in place, the revenue numbers were in place when all of this happened January 1. They spent 4.5 months with their thumbs up their @sses, or so it seems.