Laura WallaceNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYAug 21, 2006
Continues to struggle. New management is good. The pact with Microsoft (MSF-Q) is good. Not clear if they have addressed all of their accounting issues and that it has maintained its technology edge. Expensive on an earnings basis.
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.