Peter GrandichNortel ASNTEL.TOTOP PICKDec 13, 2004
All the bad things that could happen have occurred. It looks like they are going to pull out. The latest hint of how the accounting should come out doesn't look like there will be any terrible surprises. If this happens, it's a stock that technology players are going to have to own again. Use a stop loss of $3.50.
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.