WC owns the same stock as we do. What you are failing to understand with your simplistic car analogy is that the assets will not be valuable without the stock, and that's why they bought the stock in the first place. See? You have to understand that SOUP is a highly visible public brand and that it runs in the public domain. The stock is just as much a part of its essential components as everything else it comes with, and after WC pulls it out of bk, it will become much more valuable than it its right now. And you are using the analogy of a new car. SOUP is not a new car, it is a car that needs some work, the assets inside it, like the engine and tranny have to be gutted and replaced with new components, therefore it is not really the assets they want at all. They want the frame and body, which in this case is everything else but the physical assets. I hope this helps you straighten things out in your confused mind.