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Story: Strategy Raises $544.5 Million in MSTR Shares While Buying Back STRC Preferred Stock

By Maheen Hernandez

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Cash Reserves Jump, Bitcoin Stays Flat. The share sale pushed Strategy's US dollar reserve to $3.75 billion as of July 26.

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Saylor's Bank Comments Reignite Bitcoin Debate. Alongside the financial filings, executive chairman Michael Saylor posted comments on X that…

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Balancing Bitcoin Exposure and Capital Obligations. What's clear from the filings is that Strategy is working hard to keep its financial machinery…

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Strategy pulled off a notable two-sided financial move last week — selling a big chunk of its common stock while quietly buying back a slice of its preferred shares at the same…

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The company, which has built its identity around a massive Bitcoin treasury, sold 5,429,160 shares of its Class A common stock — ticker MSTR — between July 20 and July 26.

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Monday premarket trading saw MSTR shares climb more than 2%. STRC preferred shares also moved, rising 2.3% to $88.90 before the Nasdaq opened.

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The share sale pushed Strategy's US dollar reserve to $3.75 billion as of July 26. A week earlier, that figure sat at $3.225 billion.

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But here's the thing — Strategy didn't buy a single Bitcoin during this period. Not one. Its holdings stayed locked at 843,775 BTC, acquired at an average price of $75,476 per…

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That gap probably matters less to Strategy's management than it does to critics watching from the outside. The company has never really operated on a short-term price logic.

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The cash build-up seems aimed squarely at covering financial obligations — dividend payments on its preferred stock instruments and interest on existing debt.

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Alongside the financial filings, executive chairman Michael Saylor posted comments on X that stirred up a separate conversation entirely.

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See also: Michael Saylor Unveils 953-Hour Reading Program to Understand Bitcoin

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That landed differently for different people.

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Some in the crypto community read it as a pragmatic take on how Bitcoin actually reaches mass adoption.

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Others weren't having it. The pushback was sharp. A chunk of Bitcoin's most committed supporters see any meaningful reliance on banks as a betrayal of what the asset was designed…

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