Richard CroftNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYDec 30, 2004
Q: Buy $4 Calls and Puts based on their upcoming revised financials?
A: Options on the company are very expensive. This plan needs the stock to move dramatically or else it will be a wash.
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.