Strategy raises $334 million, adds $150 million to USD reserve

Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) raised $333.7 million last week through the sale of 3.46 million shares of common stock, according to a Monday filing.

The company did not buy or sell any bitcoin during the week ended Aug. 16, leaving its bitcoin reserve unchanged at 840,447 BTC. The holdings were acquired for $63.36 billion at an average price of $75,385 per bitcoin, including fees and expenses.

Strategy used $132.2 million of the stock-sale proceeds to repurchase 1,388,720 shares of its variable-rate preferred stock, STRC. It allocated another $52.4 million to STRC dividends and added approximately $150 million, to its U.S. dollar reserve.

The reserve increased to $4.80 billion as of Aug. 16, extending Strategy’s USD duration to 2.8 years. It is intended to support dividend payments on the company’s preferred stock and interest payments on its outstanding debt.

Following the latest transactions, Strategy has $653 million remaining under its preferred-stock repurchase program and $1 billion available under its MSTR common-stock repurchase program.

MSTR shares rose 1.3% in premarket trading, while bitcoin gained more than 1% over the past 24 hours to trade near $63,500.