Laura WallaceNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYJan 31, 2007
Doing better and able to produce some financial statements that are reasonable. The announcements with Microsoft (MSFT-Q) are very positive. Microsoft's new upgrade will be very good for the stock, which will be good for Nortel. Feels the stock is expensive and is not confident on their financial statements.
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.