Peter HofstraNortel ASNTEL.TODON'T BUYOct 16, 2007
He has been anti- Nortel for the last few years, but is softening his outlook. Not as negative as he was.Tough industry to be in. Believes the stock is closer to the bottom but there are better places to be.
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.