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.