Whilst the demise of the big U.S. automakers is filling the headline news,
Yahoo Finance is reporting that Meade's stock is now trading at as little
as 8 cents and the market cap has dropped to a mere US$1.94M.
See
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MEAD
It is almost a case of "why buy just a scope when for a little more you could own
the whole factory?"