Netflix is going to stop telling the world how many subscribers it has. Why?

• Netflix will stop regularly releasing subscriber statistics starting next year.
• The streaming giant added 9.3 million paying users in the last quarter — a great result that Wall Street normally rewards.
• But Netflix says those numbers no longer reflect its real value. Will Wall Street go for that?

For years, Netflix investors cared about one thing more than anything else: Go-go growth, which they measured by the number of subscribers the streaming company signed up.

Now, those investors are going to have to live without that data.