@Alby: Each company has its own "rules" how it can be bought. Usually it's about after certain percentage of shares is owned by a single instance, it has to buy the rest of the shares.
You can acquire a company by buying it little by little of make an offer to shareholdels. Usually when such an offer is made, the share value goes up.
Companies can also have shares, that serve no other purpose than trading. And a companys value can be below the value of its assets (and can also be bought below the value, although, that's usually very special case).
In case of a buyout, if another company makes an offer, it depends on the shareholders confidence to the company whether to accept it or not.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
