David BurrowsNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYMay 27, 2004
Not interested in buying turnarounds. Owners of shares, tend to take profits in any upswing and so gets hammered the second time. Clearly having problems with their financial reporting systems.
If you own the stock, you are playing that there is some value in the assets they own. The company is not a going concern. Have a huge deficit hole in their pension plan. Individual parts of the company may be better being sold off.
Has about $4 per share in cash. They are thinking of selling an asset that would raise about another $1 billion, which would add another $2 per share in cash. However, the overall quality of the balance sheet is as bad as he has ever seen it. Speculative.