Michael SprungNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYFeb 02, 2006
Just announced an agreement with a large Chinese firm for the broadband market. This is one piece of good news that we have seen in quite a while. Not sure what he would be buying at the moment regarding their relative position in the world with respect to other competitors.
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.