{"id":5745,"date":"2026-09-21T15:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=5745"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:15:55","slug":"strategy-stock-jumps-8-as-company-resumes-bitcoin-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=5745","title":{"rendered":"Strategy stock jumps 8% as company resumes Bitcoin purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) MSTR stock jumped 8% in trading on Monday after the company resumed buying Bitcoin following a two-week pause, while also continuing its repurchases of STRC preferred stock.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy acquired 950 Bitcoin for approximately $75.7 million during the week ended September 20, according to a Form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The company paid an average of $79,670 per Bitcoin, including fees and expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase increased Strategy\u2019s total Bitcoin holdings to 846,000 BTC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company has spent approximately $63.8 billion acquiring its Bitcoin holdings at an average cost of $75,416 per coin, including fees and expenses.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strategy adds 950 Bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p>Strategy\u2019s latest purchase comes as the company continues to balance its Bitcoin accumulation strategy with capital management and its preferred securities.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin also <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/09\/21\/bitcoin-hits-85000-after-months-of-pain-has-the-countdown-to-100k-finally-begun\/\">surged past $85,000<\/a> after 4 months in the session.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was trading at $85,910 at the time of publication. <\/p>\n<p>At that price, Strategy&#8217;s Bitcoin holdings were sitting on an unrealized gain of approximately $8.9 billion based on the difference between the market price and the company&#8217;s average acquisition cost.<\/p>\n<p>Strive, described as the world\u2019s fifth-largest corporate Bitcoin holder, also announced a Bitcoin purchase on Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company added 1,355 BTC during the previous week, bringing its total holdings to 26,355 BTC. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strategy buys back $174 million of STRC<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside its Bitcoin purchase, Strategy continued repurchasing its Series A preferred stock, STRC.<\/p>\n<p>The company bought back approximately 1.77 million STRC shares for $174 million during the week. STRC shares rose 0.44% to $98.94 in trading on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy said it had $875.1 million remaining under its preferred-stock repurchase programme and another $1 billion available under its MSTR share repurchase programme.<\/p>\n<p>The company also reported no sales under its at-the-market offering programmes between September 14 and September 20.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That means Strategy did not raise funds through those programmes during the period.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cash reserves decline<\/h2>\n<p>Strategy\u2019s cash balances also declined during the week as the company used funds for Bitcoin purchases, preferred-stock dividends and interest payments.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s USD Cash balance fell nearly 20% to $1.1 billion from $1.3 billion a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy uses its USD Cash balance for broader treasury purposes, including Bitcoin purchases and capital management.<\/p>\n<p>Its separate USD Reserve balance declined to $5 billion from $5.1 billion after the company used $57.4 million to pay preferred-stock dividends and interest on outstanding debt.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, Strategy held approximately $6.1 billion across its USD Cash and USD Reserve balances as of September 20.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Bitcoin purchase follows a period in which Strategy had kept its Bitcoin holdings unchanged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted a Bitcoin acquisition tracker chart on X on Sunday with the caption \u201cA little more orange,\u201d a type of post that has previously preceded Strategy\u2019s Bitcoin purchase announcements.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2026\/09\/21\/strategy-stock-jumps-8-as-company-resumes-bitcoin-purchases\/\">Strategy stock jumps 8% as company resumes Bitcoin purchases<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\">Invezz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) MSTR stock jumped 8% in trading on Monday after the company resumed buying Bitcoin following a two-week pause, while also continuing its repurchases of STRC preferred stock.Strategy acquired 950 Bitcoin for approximately $75.7 million during the week ended September 20, according to a Form 8-K filing with the US Securities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745","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=5745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}