Michael Saylor's Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holding company, Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), increased the size of its latest preferred equity issuance to $2 billion from $500 million, according to a Thursday report.
What Happened: Strategy boosted its Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock offering, announced earlier this week, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The company previously disclosed a plan to issue 5 million shares.
The proceeds are meant to be channeled for general corporate purposes, including Bitcoin acquisitions.
Strategy intends to price the shares, which carry an initial dividend of 9%, at $90 each, marking a discount to the earlier face value of $100 apiece, the report said. Unlike its other preferred stock offerings, the STRC will pay cumulative dividends at a variable rate.
A preferred stock has priority over common stock in terms of dividend payments and asset distribution during liquidation.
Strategy did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for confirmation.
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Why It Matters: Strategy has front-run Bitcoin’s corporate adoption, building its reserve with proceeds from common stock, preferred stock, and convertible bond issuances. The firm held a stash of more than 607,770 BTC, worth over $70 billion as of this writing, according to bitcointreasuries.net, cornering over 3% of the total circulating supply.
The preferred stock strategy capitalizes on what Saylor has described as a "quadratically reflexive, engineered instrument" that allows Strategy to issue shares at premiums to Bitcoin's value, effectively acquiring BTC at discounts.
Price Action: At the time of writing, BTC was exchanging hands at $115,317, down 2.71% in the last 24 hours, according to data from Benzinga Pro.
Shares of Strategy fell 0.44% in after-hours trading after closing 0.55% higher at $414.92 during Thursday's regular trading session, according to data from Benzinga Pro. Year-to-date, the stock has gained 43.26%.
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