I don't think it's ridiculous at all. It's something to keep an eye on. If I had a car wash company... and you bought me out. It could mean you're growing... and you doubled your client base. Or it could mean that you just got yourself a mop bucket and some soap. If it were such a good company and you were happy about the expansion... you'd probably say "Yea we acquired or merged with so and so doubling our size and we intend to improve their blah blah blah". Eventually, you'd be able to tell if you in fact grew your business or in fact screwed up. With this, it's the net... you can hide behind it. So release some numbers to show us what a good business decision it was if it was in fact a good purchase.