Taken from an email note from Spears; …"$700M for a company with sales of $6 billion? Why so cheap? Debt, combined with lack of growth. Like we tell everybody, Weatherford was a good company with good people doing good work, but this good work is hard to sustain when debt covers everything like a soaking blanket".
Also note that since the downturn, WFT has grown sales only 9% while Halliburton's sales are up 50%