strategy Announce On Monday, it acquired an additional 24,869 BTC for approximately $2.01 billion, at an average of approximately $80,985 per coin, bringing the company’s total holdings to 843,738 BTC — cementing its position as the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury by a wide margin.
The disclosure came via an 8-K form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, continuing the company’s practice of making acquisition announcements on Monday morning. The purchase represents a significant acceleration from Strategy’s most recently disclosed purchase – 535 BTC for $43 million during the week of May 5-11 – which It raised questions Among investors on whether the company is retreating from its aggressive pace of accumulation.
With this latest tranche, Strategy has now acquired a total of 843,738 bitcoins at a total cost of approximately $63.87 billion, which translates to an average price of approximately $75,700 per bitcoin. The company also recorded a BTC return of 12.6% year-to-date in 2026 – a proprietary metric that tracks the accumulation of Bitcoin per diluted share and serves as a primary benchmark for the strategy to measure the cumulative value of capital markets activity to shareholders.
The purchase comes against the backdrop of renewed investor interest in the strategy’s financing mix. The Company has relied heavily on a strip of perpetual variable rate Series A preferred stock STRC – Along with the MSTR market share offering program to finance acquisitions. STRC, which offers an annual dividend of about 11.5%, has grown into a favored multi-billion-dollar stock product and has become an increasingly important pillar of Strategy’s Bitcoin buying engine.
The strategy did not sell any Bitcoin
Saylor sent a telegram that a big announcement was coming, updating Strategy’s bitcoin acquisition tracker on Sunday and teasing “Big dot energy,” a reference to the large new mark that will soon appear on the company’s now-famous chart of cumulative Bitcoin purchases.
The latest acquisition comes weeks after CEO Michael Saylor and CEO Phuong Le admitted on the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call that the strategy could, under specific circumstances, sell a portion of its bitcoin to fund STRC’s earnings or manage tax liabilities — the first time leadership has left the door open for any sales.
Saylor then pushed back on his concerns, saying that the company will buy between 10 and 20 bitcoins for every coin it ever sells.
At Bitcoin’s current trading price of close to $80,000, Strategy’s treasury of 843,738 coins holds a market cap of $67 billion, representing one of the most concentrated single-asset corporate balance sheets in financial history.
Friday, strategy Also moved to divest $1.5 billion of the face value of its 2029 zero-coupon convertible bonds for approximately $1.38 billion, effectively repurchasing debt for about 92 cents on the dollar and signaling a desire to use its balance sheet more aggressively, including potentially financing the deal with bitcoin sales despite Saylor’s recent focus on remaining a “net accumulator” of assets.
