Strategy raised $602.8 million last week. Bitcoin got $369.7 million of it. The rest went to three other places, and that split is the more interesting part of the filing.
The First Bitcoin Purchase Since June 22
Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) disclosed in a Form 8-K filed August 31 that it bought 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million during the week of August 24-30, at an average price of $80,318 per coin including fees. It was the company’s first disclosed bitcoin purchase since June 22, ending a pause of roughly two months during which Strategy sold bitcoin twice, 1,638 BTC between July 27 and August 2 and another 1,690 BTC shortly after, to fund STRC preferred stock repurchases. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor teased the return himself, posting “We’re ₿ack” on X the day before the filing, following an earlier post reading “paint the bears orange,” a phrase the market has come to read as a signal that a purchase disclosure is coming.
The new tranche pushed Strategy’s total holdings to 845,050 BTC, acquired for an aggregate $63.73 billion at an average cost of $75,412 per coin, up slightly from $75,385 before the purchase. With bitcoin trading near $78,000 in the days after the filing, the newest coins bought at $80,318 sat underwater by roughly $2,300 each, even as the portfolio as a whole remained above its aggregate cost basis. Filings on SEC EDGAR.
Bitcoin Got 61 Cents of Every Dollar Raised, Not All of It
The $369.7 million spent on bitcoin came from selling 4,531,421 MSTR shares for $602.8 million in net proceeds. The remaining $233.1 million went three other places: $151.8 million to repurchase 1,557,177 shares of STRC, its variable-rate perpetual preferred stock, under the Digital Credit Securities Repurchase Program the company has run since late June; $50.7 million to fund STRC’s own dividend payments; and $30 million added to Strategy’s USD Cash liquidity account, which stood at $1.61 billion as of August 30 alongside a separate $5.10 billion USD Reserve, together totaling $6.71 billion in designated dollar assets.
The STRC repurchases came at an average price near $97.48 per share, below the stock’s $100 stated par value, consistent with the buy-below-par policy Strategy’s management has described publicly since mid-August. After the week’s activity, $364.8 million remained authorized under that repurchase program, while a separate $1 billion common-stock buyback authorization for MSTR itself has still gone entirely unused. No shares were repurchased under Strategy’s other preferred programs, STRF, STRK, or STRD, during the period.
The Stock Fell Anyway
MSTR traded roughly 7.4 percent below Friday’s close in Monday’s premarket session even as the filing confirmed the company’s return to bitcoin buying, according to crypto.news’s coverage of the disclosure. Bitcoin itself was down about 0.9 percent over the same 24 hours, sitting roughly 2.9 percent below Strategy’s $80,318 average purchase price for the new tranche. Remaining capacity for future capital raises stayed large regardless of the pullback: $19.09 billion in MSTR shares available under the common stock ATM program, and approximately $25.2 billion combined across all of Strategy’s preferred-stock ATM programs as of August 30.
The gap between “bought more bitcoin” and “stock fell anyway” is the clearest evidence yet that the market is no longer pricing Strategy purely on whether it’s accumulating. With four separate demands now competing for every dollar raised, bitcoin purchases, preferred dividends, preferred buybacks, and cash reserves, investors appear to be weighing the full capital-allocation picture rather than treating a resumed buying streak as unambiguously bullish on its own.
Next Week’s 8-K Will Show Whether the Four-Way Split Holds
Strategy’s weekly disclosures, typically filed Mondays covering the prior week, are the next data point. Whether the company reverts to putting most new capital toward bitcoin, or continues splitting proceeds across STRC buybacks, dividends, and cash reserves, will show whether this week was a one-time return to form or a durable shift in how Strategy allocates the capital it raises.
Sources
- Investing.com: Strategy Purchases 4,603 Bitcoin, August 31, 2026
- Bitcoin Treasuries: Strategy Buys 4603 Bitcoin and Continues STRC Buybacks, August 2026
- crypto.news: Strategy Buys 4603 BTC After Two-Month Pause, August 31, 2026
- The Block: ‘We’re Back,’ Strategy Buys Another 4603 BTC, $369.7 Million, Holdings Hit 845,050 BTC, August 31, 2026
- SEC EDGAR: Strategy Inc. Form 8-K, filed July 13, 2026
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