On his Stock Watch list. If it can turn itself around, it has huge upside. When he buys into a company, he has to see that the people running it are really looking after costs and care about the dollars and cents for the shareholders. This one has never given him the feeling of that.
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.