Peter HofstraNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYMar 22, 2006
Can’t convince himself to step in on this one. New management is in place and they are making changes, bringing in tremendous disciplines but they had to revisit the accounting again and there is a lot to happen to the stock.
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.