Michael SprungNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYOct 18, 2006
Getting to a point where we can depend a little more on the accounting. Given the problems that they've had presenting numbers that can be relied on, do you really know what you're buying. Expect they will have a lot of competition from Asia.
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.