{"id":4697,"date":"2026-05-04T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:16:23","slug":"strategy-pauses-bitcoin-buying-ahead-of-q1-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying Ahead of Q1 Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Investors are worried about the company&#8217;s dependence on STRC, Strategy&#8217;s perpetual preferred security, due to the asset&#8217;s 11.5% dividend yield.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The mark-to-market accounting for Bitcoin is the key reason why Wall Street analysts are predicting a loss of $18.98 per share in Tuesday&#8217;s earnings release.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In anticipation of Tuesday&#8217;s first quarter earnings announcement, Strategy\u2014the largest publicly traded Bitcoin holder in the world\u2014has temporarily suspended all cryptocurrency acquisitions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No buys this week. Back to work next week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">$BTC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lqliYZPAf4\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/lqliYZPAf4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/2050927636814168433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a post on X, where he often signals intended acquisitions, executive chairman Michael Saylor said &#8220;No buys this week&#8221; on Sunday. The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based corporation recently spent $255 million for 3,273 Bitcoin, as revealed in an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27. The acquisition took place between April 20 and 26.<\/p>\n<p>With 818,334 BTC in possession, acquired at an average price of $77,906 per coin, Strategy&#8217;s cost basis\u00a0has increased to $75,537. Market capitalization-wise, the most valuable cryptocurrency as of Monday&#8217;s trade was $79,731, as reported by CMC. In addition to US spot price exchange-traded fund inflows and strategy&#8217;s purchases last month, April saw a 12% gain in the price of Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dependence-on-strc\">Dependence on STRC<\/h3>\n<p>The mark-to-market accounting for Bitcoin is the key reason why Wall Street analysts are predicting a loss of $18.98 per share in Tuesday&#8217;s earnings release. According to statistics from Yahoo Finance, the loss from the previous period was $16.49. Attendees of Wednesday&#8217;s Consensus business conference in Miami Beach, Florida may look forward to hearing Saylor speak.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are worried about the company&#8217;s dependence on STRC, Strategy&#8217;s perpetual preferred security, due to the asset&#8217;s 11.5% dividend yield. Euro Pacific Asset Management&#8217;s chief economist and global strategist, Peter Schiff, who has previously referred to Strategy as a &#8220;Ponzi scheme,&#8221; reiterated his accusation on Sunday, casting doubt on the company&#8217;s capacity to maintain the dividend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlighted Crypto News Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewscrypto.com\/ethereum-foundation-sells-another-10k-eth-to-bitmine-for-22-9m\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Ethereum Foundation Sells Another 10K ETH to BitMine for $22.9M<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors are worried about the company&#8217;s dependence on STRC, Strategy&#8217;s perpetual preferred security, due to the asset&#8217;s 11.5% dividend yield. The mark-to-market accounting for Bitcoin is the key reason why Wall Street analysts are predicting a loss of $18.98 per share in Tuesday&#8217;s earnings release. In anticipation of Tuesday&#8217;s first quarter earnings announcement, Strategy\u2014the largest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}