RE: tender offer13 Mar 2022 11:41
This is a great question and one many will be asking. The only thing you can really do is to decide what exit price is acceptable to you. Wait and see what the latest date is that your broker will accept instructions from you in order to have the best idea of the VWAP based price might be. Let's say you think it will be around 195p. If this is acceptable to you, then simply tender all at the strike price to ensure the maximum number are bought back. In addition to tendering at the strike price we will probably be given the option to tender at 1% intervals above VWAP to the maximum at 5%. If the minimum you will accept is 204p then you could tender all at VWAP + 5% but risk the strike price being lower than this. Don't forget you should be able to tender different quantities at different prices if you wish. So if you had 1000 shares, you could say tender 700 at the strike price and 300 at VWAP + 3%. You certainly won't qualify for any special dividend on any shares successfully tendered. If you feel that the shares are vastly undervalued, then it maybe best just to sit tight.
I certainly can't offer any advice as I haven't got the foggiest clue how this is going to play out and have yet to make up my own mind what to do.