RE:Alex RuusFast money bumped the stock up trying to make a buck on the rumour, as always things never happen fast enough so the money moves back out. Hence the sell off.
but if you really add it all up and a buyout takes out the debentures and preffered shares that yield 6% plus the 4% yield on common, private equity like pesion funds could use a 10% return on a pretty stable business. Not like lease financing is going away any time soon.
it will get bought out.