Robert McWhirterNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYAug 20, 2004
Have just delivered their near-term interim earnings and will give a clearer indication by the end of September. In the bottom 10% of the database. Earnings estimates are being revised downwards. Stock is fully valued.
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.