You don't see many $6 billion-plus market-cap companies that trade for less than $3 a share. And you don't see many manufacturers that consistently sell $16 billion or more of its products each year without so much as stumbling into an annual profit.
In short, you don't see many companies like Alcatel-Lucent (ticker: ALU).
But though Alcatel-Lucent has bungled the last several cycles of telecommunications technology, the company is poised to re-emerge as a force in the telecom equipment business, bulls say.
With cutting edge products, it's leapt back into contention in the equipment market. It's once again the second-largest ...