Strategy splits $603 million share sale between Bitcoin purchases and STRC support

Strategy raised $602.8 million by selling 4,531,421 MSTR common shares in one week, then split the proceeds among a renewed Bitcoin purchase, support for its STRC preferred stock, and additional cash.

The company's Aug. 31 filing attributed $369.7 million to buying Bitcoin, $151.8 million to repurchasing 1,557,177 STRC shares, $50.7 million to STRC dividends, and $30 million to its USD Cash account.

STRC is variable-rate cumulative perpetual preferred stock. The transaction shows Strategy using new common-stock proceeds for both Bitcoin accumulation and preferred-stock support.

The four disclosed uses total $602.2 million, $0.6 million below the filing's rounded $602.8 million net-proceeds figure. The filing reports each amount to one decimal place but does not separately reconcile the difference.

Strategy bought 4,603 BTC from Aug. 24 through Aug. 30 at an average price of $80,318, inclusive of fees and expenses. The purchase lifted its holdings from 840,447 BTC to 845,050 BTC, according to the filing and its official Bitcoin ledger.

The company reported an aggregate purchase cost of $63.73 billion and an average cost of $75,412 per BTC for the full position.

In its Aug. 24 filing, Strategy reported no Bitcoin purchases or sales during the prior weekly period. The Aug. 31 filing then reported the 4,603 BTC purchase, while the remaining proceeds funded other parts of the balance sheet.

Strategy sold no preferred shares through its at-the-market programs during the latest period. It instead used $202.5 million of the MSTR proceeds for STRC repurchases and dividends. After the buyback, the company said $364.8 million remained available under its wider preferred-stock repurchase program.

The final $30 million went to USD Cash, a flexible account that Strategy says may be used for Bitcoin purchases, expanding its reserve, capital management, and similar corporate purposes.

USD Cash is separate from the USD Reserve, which is intended to support preferred dividends and interest on outstanding debt. As of Aug. 30, Strategy reported $1.61 billion of USD Cash and a $5.1 billion USD Reserve.

Both balances included expected proceeds from at-the-market shares sold but not yet settled.

Bitcoin was still the largest disclosed destination for the week's MSTR proceeds. But the filing also shows how Strategy's common-stock issuance now feeds three distinct needs at once: Bitcoin holdings, preferred-stock obligations and buybacks, and flexible cash.

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