Takeover bids and issuer bids are related to investing. Takeover bids are done by a coporate office. It involves a company making an offer to another company's shareholders in hopes to buy the company's shares and gain their business. These type of bids can be both friendly and hostile.
There are two types of takeover bids, which are two-tier bids and any-and-all bids. An issuer bid involves a buyback of securities that are outstanding. The issuer bid is a step in either an arrangement, amalgamation, reorganization, or merger of security holders. In other words, an issuer bid is an offer to acquire.
An issuer bid is an offer by a company that has issued stock to buy back some of its stock from investors.
A takeover bid is an offer by someone (or some other business entity) to buy the stock of another company in order to gain control of that company.