Nortel has announced the dividend rate payable for the next five years on the Series 6 shares to which holders of Series 5 shares (NTL.PR.F) are entitled to convert. If they do not convert (or should conversion be cancelled due to insufficient orders), holders will retain their NTL.PR.F shares under the existing terms and conditions.
Nortel Networks Limited announced that the fixed dividend rate for its Cumulative Redeemable Class A Preferred Shares Series 6 will be equal to 80% of the yield on five-year non-callable Government of Canada bonds to be determined on November 10, 2006.
Pretty skimpy! Especially for an issue rated Pfd-5(low) by DBRS! I rather suspect that there will be no conversions.
[…] NTL.PR.F had a conversion option to fixed rate in 2006. NTL.PR.G has been mentioned on PrefBlog in a post about distressed preferreds. […]