29 Quotes by David Menlow

We are looking for the energy sector to be the odds on favorite for market leadership that could reawaken the sleeping IPO giant.

We were caught off guard by the opening premium.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen it priced at the lower end of the range as an olive branch to the individual investors. But I think they did a superb job pricing it, particularly given the pressures they were under with an offering of this size.

Underperforming assets are not going to work in the marketplace. Spin-offs used to be desirable. Now it looks like companies want to give to the investing public divisions that they can't do anything with.

Our issue here is controlling delivery of voice-based data. This is nothing revolutionary ... but the market is moving from back to perception versus reality and looking at what promise do (the companies) have.

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

We are seeing a definite change in market sentiment.

There is a vein of distrust in the marketplace for many big deals. They are viewed not as a safe haven, but a financial bailout for the issuers and the shareholders of the parent company.

We like the company, we like what they do, everything about it is great, but at some point you can't breathe too well at 43,000 feet.