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MicroStrategy Sells More Stock Than It Buys Bitcoin: A Red Flag?
Key takeaways
- Micro Strategy Sells More Stock Than It Buys Bitcoin: A Red Flag?
- Micro Strategy steered the surplus into a cash reserve set aside for dividends and debt, rather than into more Bitcoin.
- MicroStrategy raised the full $209 million by selling 1,732,553 MSTR shares through its at-the-market program.
Micro Strategy Sells More Stock Than It Buys Bitcoin: A Red Flag? Lockridge Okoth Mon, June 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM GMT+7 2 min read MSTR BTC-USD Micro Strategy bought 1,587 Bitcoin (BTC) for $100 million between June 8 and June 14, paying an average of $63,024 per coin. To fund it, the company sold $209 million of common stock, more than twice what it spent.
The gap shows where the rest of the money went. Micro Strategy steered the surplus into a cash reserve set aside for dividends and debt, rather than into more Bitcoin.
MicroStrategy raised the full $209 million by selling 1,732,553 MSTR shares through its at-the-market program. It tapped none of its preferred stock lines during the period.
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