During the financial crisis, the price of Sprint stock fell from $24 per share to $1.30, effectively pricing into the stock the looming possibility of bankruptcy. At the time, Sprint had a debt burden of $20 billion and was losing $1.6 billion during calendar year 2008.
I never write about Sprint as an investment because the debt burden has been just too speculative—if I can’t be reasonably sure that the debt won’t force the company into bankruptcy within the next decade or so, why cover the business enterprise?
With interest rates still so low, it can be easy to forget that debt obligations matter. Then, you peek out and see news items today like Gibson Brands, Inc.’s news of bankruptcy. The maker of Gibson Guitars is “profitable” in the sense that that the core businesses generate revenue that is greater than its non-debt related expenses, but it is not profitable … Read the rest of this article!
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