MicroStrategy Swaps Stocks for Bitcoin in $147.3M Deal
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor recently disclosed that the company has substantially acquired 5,445 Bitcoin (BTC) with an average purchase price of $27,053.
Per an 8-K filing, MicroStrategy executed this acquisition between August 1 and September 24, deploying a total investment of $147.3 million to secure Bitcoin at an average cost of $27,053 per unit.
Notably, to finance these Bitcoin purchases, MicroStrategy divested 403,362 class A common stocks, generating proceeds of $147.3 million. In early August, reports emerged of the company’s plans to sell up to $750 million worth of class A common stocks. The official filing elaborated on this development:
On August 1, MicroStrategy entered into a Sales Agreement with Cowen and Company, LLC, Canaccord Genuity LLC, and Berenberg Capital Markets LLC, all acting as sales agents. This agreement permits MicroStrategy to issue and sell shares of its class A common stock, each with a par value of $0.001 per share, with a cumulative offering price of up to $750.0 million, periodically through these agents.
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Following this recent investment in Bitcoin, MicroStrategy now holds a total of 158,245 BTC. Over a span of three years, the company has invested approximately $4.68 billion in acquiring Bitcoin, with an average acquisition price of $29,582 per BTC.
MicroStrategy remains committed to its Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) investment strategies in cryptocurrency.
With the Bitcoin halving event on the horizon, occurring in less than a year, the crypto community eagerly anticipates the potential initiation of a new bullish trend. Many within the community foresee Michael Saylor as a visionary figure to watch closely over the next 12 months.
Alexander Stefanov
Reporter at CoinsPress
Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
