For a private buyer, it is unfathomable to purchase a company under these conditions.

We're on the downward slope of the commercial airplane cycle. But given the rebound the company has been able to make in improving production efficiencies, they should be able to offset the decline in revenue as operating profits improve going forward.

You can look at the different companies that are available. You can compare from one company to another the formularies that they'll pay for and the appropriate co-pays in each category.

The company did not think it was feasible to restructure the deal.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

In one company I looked at, printing problems would be solved by the receptionist. If it was too complicated for her, she would just ring up the company that sold it – IT staff would probably have done exactly the same.