Peter HofstraNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYJun 29, 2005
Feels that if there was corruption at the top, there was corruption through the whole culture. They are doing the right things to get that out, but it is a long process.
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.