David CockfieldNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYJun 15, 2005
Not a fan. Feels it will survive. The sector that they are has become extremely competitive. Multiples are not going to be what they were. Growth is going to be much slower. Still potentially open to litigation.
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.