1) improves competition for buyout/partnership 2) improves the stock price for buyout and offerings 3) gets CTAD to talk exclusively about A2-73
I can only think of a couple reasons why news wouldn't be out and you mentioned them essentially
1) unknown yet no--data in hand 2) precision because they failed top line 3) they failed and doing damage control 4) missling just is a greedy guy and wants more optoins at the expense of all his shareholders lightening up and buying options.