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(Bloomberg) -- The mini rally in Bitcoin over the past few trading sessions has made every purchase of the cryptocurrency by Michael Saylor’s Strategy over the last four plus years profitable.
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The former MicroStrategy Inc. announced earlier Monday that it had acquired an additional 1,045 tokens for $110.2 million from June 2 to June 8, or for an average price of $105,426 each. Bitcoin was up about 1.7% to $108,022 as of 12:39 p.m. in New York, and has climbed around 7.5% since June 5.
Strategy has made around 70 separate purchase announcements since Saylor began to invest cash from the enterprise software maker’s balance sheet into Bitcoin in the middle of 2020. That includes 15 purchases of $1 billion or more of Bitcoin, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. As the price of Bitcoin fluctuated over the years, many of the purchases were periodically under water.
Saylor, who co-founded the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm and and serves as executive chairman, later begin selling common shares as well as preferred stock and debt to fund additional purchases. Strategy owns 582,000 Bitcoin, valued at about $62.9 billion, The overall average price per token is $70,086.
The latest purchases were made with $112 million in net proceeds from the sale of the company’s Strike preferred stock (STRK) and Strife preferred stock (STRF), according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Last week, Strategy sold another class of securities, called Perpetual Stride Preferred Stock, (STRD). The firm estimated it will realize net proceeds of about $979.7 million from the offering.
The top 26 purchase announcements based on the average cost of Bitcoin have all happened in the last 12 months, data compiled by Bloomberg shows. Strategy is the leading corporate holder of the digital currency. Saylor has pledged to raise $84 billion in equity and debt.
The Strategy playbook has inspired many copycats looking to share the same success from purchasing and holding cryptocurrencies to boost their share prices. Companies such as Mara, Gamestop, Semler and Trump Media have all announced plans to use cash to buy the cryptocurrency, but none have been able to replicate the successes Saylor’s company enjoys.
