Norman LevineNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYAug 15, 2005
Currently lacking a president/CEO. The last one left very quickly, so management is not a stable one. Financials seem to be getting more in order. Has great reservations about the company. A speculation and a gamble. Products are under siege right now.
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.