In this chapter, I consider the finances of the Admiral’s, Strange’s and Sussex’s Men as preserved in Henslowe’s diary, with a view to comparing lost and extant plays in terms of the highest number of performances, the highest average takings, and the single most profitable performances. If there is any truth to the suggestion made by older generations of scholars that lost plays were mere filler and that their failure to appear in print is an index of their perceived quality, I would expect to see such valuations reflected in the three financial measures I explore, but the results do not support such a conclusion. Instead, one of the key claims I make is that lost plays performed significantly better (financially) and were of greater value to a commercial company than scholars have traditionally acknowledged. I then construct a census of the Admiral’s known repertory, with the initial aim of identifying a ratio of lost-to-extant plays that may be indicative of the loss rates for other, less well-documented adult, commercial companies. The process of conducting this census also affords me the opportunity to explore in more nuanced detail the critical assumptions that distort the perception of lost plays.