tender offer
noun [ C ]
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET ukusan occasion when a company offers to buy its own or another company's shares from existing shareholders at a particular price:
The company's tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of stock expires Monday.
make a tender offer They made a tender offer to shareholders yesterday for 4.78m shares at 165p.
The company launched a hostile 500p a share tender offer.
an occasion when a company sells new shares to those who make offers for them above a particular lowest price. The company calculates the strike price (= final price to be paid) in relation to the total demand and the prices offered.