{"id":916984,"date":"2026-07-06T19:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916984\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:41:16","slug":"strategy-selling-hundreds-of-millions-worth-of-bitcoin-raises-question-about-its-capital-allocation-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916984\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy selling hundreds of millions worth of bitcoin raises question about its capital-allocation playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly, after a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2026\/06\/08\/strategy-buys-1-550-bitcoin-boosts-cash-reserves-to-usd1-billion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buys<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2026\/06\/01\/strategy-sold-32-btc-for-usd2-5-million-in-late-may-filing-shows\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sales<\/a> over the past few weeks, the company is left with a net increase of only 69 bitcoin despite deploying roughly $20 million in additional capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CryptoKaleo\/status\/2074105353076154821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">a crypto trader, KALEO, said on X<\/a>. Because the company sold coins below the prices it had recently paid, the implied average cost of those additional holdings exceeded $289,000 per bitcoin, KALEO added.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy now holds 843,775 bitcoin purchased at an average price of $75,476, maintaining its position as the largest publicly traded corporate holder of the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the losses, today&#8217;s move to sell millions of dollars&#8217; worth of bitcoin will likely signal to investors that Strategy will go to whatever lengths necessary to protect its dividends on its high-yielding preferred stock, Stretch (STRC), whose dividend now stands at 12% after a recent 50 basis-point increase. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, while bitcoin and Strategy&#8217;s common stock, MSTR, are lower on Monday, STRC continues to rebound from last week&#8217;s low below $75, rising another 2.1% to just shy of $90.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;strategy&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Given the zigzags in strategy over the past few weeks, the company&#8217;s near-term capital allocation has become harder for investors to predict. Assuming relatively stable prices for BTC, MSTR, and STRC, it&#8217;s probably safe to say that bitcoin buys are off the table for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interestingly, after a series of buys and sales over the past few weeks, the company is left with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":916985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,110335,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-916984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-microstrategy","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116874738899420679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}