Das ging schnell. Heute mal eben Minus 30% auf 28 cent.
Die balancieren voll auf der Kante zur Inso, derzeit wie gesagt nur ein Zockerteil auf alles oder nichts und wilde Kurssprünge, aber keine seriöse Anlage.
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Calpine feared on brink of bankruptcy
Friday December 2, 3:48 pm ET
By Ben Berkowitz
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Embattled power producer Calpine Corp. (NYSE:CPN - News) remained the subject of bankruptcy fears on Friday after a Delaware court gave it far less time than it had requested to repay more than $300 million it improperly spent to buy fuel for its power plants.
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The company said it would appeal the ruling and seek an expedited hearing. A spokeswoman was not available for further comment on the company's plans.
Calpine, struggling under a $17 billion debt burden after years of expansion and a post-Enron downturn in the merchant power market, has conceded that bankruptcy is an option. But at the same time it also launched a $400 million debt buyback late Thursday that surprised observers and created at least some hope that insolvency was not imminent.
Calpine shares were down 9 cents at 29 cents in afternoon New York Stock Exchange trading. They have lost 84 percent of their value since early last week, when the company first lost the Delaware case. Days later the board of directors removed CEO Peter Cartwright and CFO Robert Kelly.
"When Cartwright and Kelly were still at the firm we had believed that the $313 million would not drive them into bankruptcy," said Jon Cartwright, a debt analyst at BOSC Inc. "Now that they're gone it's entirely possible that the surviving board members will chose bankruptcy."
After Vice Chancellor Leo Strine of the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled on November 22 that Calpine violated its bond indentures when it bought gas for fuel with the proceeds of some recent asset sales, the company essentially threw itself on the court's mercy.
In a filing this past Wednesday, Calpine said anything less than 90 days to repay the $313 million could "devastate" the company and would be "potentially ruinous." But Strine chastised Calpine in court on Friday for not being more upfront about its financial condition.
"For a company with $27 billion in assets to say that a ruling sought from this court would determine their fate is astounding as a business proposition and questionable as a legal proposition," Strine said.
The judge's ruling came just hours after the company said it would tender for $400 million in debt, using its remaining asset sale proceeds, giving at least some confidence that it could delay any insolvency.
"Tendering for the senior notes would indicate a high probably that the company would continue to operate," said BOSC Inc.'s Cartwright, no relation to the former CEO Cartwright. He continues to have a "buy" rating on some Calpine bonds.
Management experts considering Calpine's situation said that, ultimately, the company should have known better than to get caught up with so much debt and then fight with its bondholders over its spending plans.
"There's really no excuse in their business, because they've seen Enron, they've seen Dynegy fall before them," said Anthony Sabino, a professor of business and law at St. John's University in New York. "The taint is going to stain them and it's going to be a difficult if not impossible stain to wash off."