Although equipment sector is looking a little bit better, it is not firmly in an uptrend. This company, within the group, is not leading. Company has not been able to show him that they can follow through on what they say they are doing. Stocks like this have a mountain of shareholders just waiting for an opportunity to get their price so there are a lot of built-in sellers in the market.
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.