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By Evie Vavasseur
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VWAP Below $95 Triggers Automatic Rate Hike. Here's where it gets complicated. Strategy tracks STRC's volume-weighted average price — VWAP — on…
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What Strategy Can Actually Do About It. Strategy has a few levers it can pull here, though none of them are clean.
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STRC Has Hit $100 Before — Can It Again?. It's worth remembering that STRC has traded at or above $100 before.
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Michael Saylor wants $100. He's not there yet.
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Strategy — the company formerly known as MicroStrategy — saw its largest dividend-paying preferred stock, STRC, close at $87.31 on the Nasdaq yesterday.
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Here's where it gets complicated. Strategy tracks STRC's volume-weighted average price — VWAP — on a monthly basis, and for June, that figure sat at $94.09 as of yesterday's close.
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That sounds like good news for income-focused investors. It's probably not. A 12% dividend yield on a preferred stock that's already struggling to hold par value starts looking…
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Strategy has a few levers it can pull here, though none of them are clean. The most obvious would be buying back STRC on the open market — but the company has shown zero interest…
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A second option is pausing new STRC issuance when the price is near $100.01. The logic there is straightforward.
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More context: Strategy Sells $335.5M in MSTR Shares to Buy 520 Bitcoin and Pad $1.4B Cash Reserve
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Adding more USD to its cash reserves is another route. Strategy already has $1.4 billion sitting in reserve, but that hasn't moved STRC shareholders much.
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Then there's the wildcard: a surprise benefit for shareholders. CEO Phong Le recently bought $1 million worth of STRC shares himself, which is a notable gesture — but it's pretty…
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It's worth remembering that STRC has traded at or above $100 before. The last time it got there, the conditions were fairly specific: dividend payments were honored on schedule,…
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The tension here is real. Strategy's entire financial identity is built around accumulating Bitcoin. Every dollar spent propping up STRC is a dollar not going into BTC.
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