Question

Which of the following statements is CORRECT? a. Well-designed bond covenants are useful for reducing potential conflicts between stockholders and managers. b. Takeovers are most likely to be attempted if the target firm's stock price is above its intrinsic value. c. The bid price in a hostile takeover is generally above the price before the takeover attempt is announced, because otherwise there would be no incentive for the stockholders to sell to the hostile bidder and the takeover attempt would probably fail. d. Stockholders in general would be better off if managers never disclosed favorable events and therefore caused the price of the firm's stock to sell at a price below its intrinsic value. e. The efficiency of the U.S. economy would probably be increased if hostile takeovers were absolutely forbidden.

Answer 1

The answer is: c. The bid price in a hostile takeover is generally above the price before the takeover attempt is announced, because otherwise there would be no incentive for the stockholders to sell to the hostile bidder and the takeover attempt would probably fail

Hostile takeover refers to the process of acquiring another company without the approval of that other company's management team. The only way to do a hostile takeover is to ensure majority of the shareholders to sell their stocks to us within a short period of time. For the shareholders to do this, we need to offer the price that is way above the current market value.