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By James Van Straten, CoinDesk Bot
Updated Mar 3, 2025, 1:41 p.m. UTCPublished Mar 3, 2025, 1:40 p.m. UTC
What to know:
- Leading corporate bitcoin (BTC) holder Strategy (MSTR) did not purchase any additional tokens last week.
- The company will make the first dividend payment on its recently issued preferred stock (STRK) on March 31.
Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of Strategy (MSTR)
Strategy (MSTR) on Monday morning confirmed it did not purchase additional bitcoin (BTC) in the week ended Sunday, keeping its total holdings at 499,096 BTC.
Led by Michael Saylor, the company has notably been making sizable bitcoin purchases nearly every week for the past few months. Strategy — amid major slumps in the price of bitcoin and its stock price — however, did not raise any additional capital with which to buy BTC last week.
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The company’s current stack was acquired for approximately $33.1 billion, or an average price of $66,357 per token. After the rally in bitcoin to the $93,000 level over the weekend, Strategy has an unrealized profit exceeding $13 billion.
Additionally, the company announced the initial quarterly cash dividend for its 8.00% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (STRK). The dividend, prorated from Feb 5, 2025, will be $1.24 per share, payable on March 31 to stockholders of record as of March 15.
Alongside the recovery in bitcoin’s price, Strategy shares are higher by 13% in premarket action to $289 but remain lower by nearly 50% from a record high touched in November.
Disclaimer: Parts of this article were generated with the assistance from AI tools and reviewed by our editorial team to ensure accuracy and adherence to our standards. For more information, see CoinDesk’s full AI Policy.
James Van Straten is a Senior Analyst at CoinDesk, specializing in Bitcoin and its interplay with the macroeconomic environment. Previously, James worked as a Research Analyst at Saidler & Co., a Swiss hedge fund, where he developed expertise in on-chain analytics. His work focuses on monitoring flows to analyze Bitcoin’s role within the broader financial system.
In addition to his professional endeavors, James serves as an advisor to Coinsilium, a UK publicly traded company, where he provides guidance on their Bitcoin treasury strategy. He also holds investments in Bitcoin, MicroStrategy (MSTR), and Semler Scientific (SMLR).
“CoinDesk Bot” indicates a generative text tool, typically an AI chatbot, contributed to the article. In each and every case, the article was edited, fact-checked and published by a human. Read more about CoinDesk’s AI Policy here.
