bidding war

[bid-ing-wawr]

noun

1. a competition in which two or more potential buyers make increasing offers to buy the same thing.

Example Sentences

“Even if the WBD Board ‘should’ say yes at $20/share, we suspect they want substantially more given their ‘hopes’ for a bidding war for the studio and HBO following the split in April 2026,” LightShed analyst Richard Greenfield wrote on Monday.

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Greenfield added that while he thinks a bidding war for Warner Bros.

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Discovery after it possibly splits is unlikely, “we can certainly see how the WBD Board could foresee a bidding war breaking out, driving the need for Paramount to meaningfully overpay for WBD .”

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Shares jumped more than 8% after the announcement, which sets the stage for a potential bidding war over the firm.

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Discovery CEO David Zaslav has reportedly been interested in trying to generate a bidding war.

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