
purchases, and its stock’s daily trading sometimes looks like a more volatile version of bitcoin.
The company now has a market cap of roughly $90 billion despite having less than $500 million in revenue over its previous four quarters, according to FactSet. Saylor told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” earlier this month that he sees the company’s role as “securitizing bitcoin.”
“Primarily, our job is to bridge the traditional capital markets that want bonds, or they want fixed income, or they want equity, or they want options, and we plug that into the crypto economy. And we use bitcoin as the vehicle to do that,” said Saylor, who is now the company’s executive chairman.
MicroStrategy began cranking up its purchases after the U.S. presidential election. The victory of pro-crypto President-elect Donald Trump — specifically his promise to establish a national strategic bitcoin stockpile — has propelled bitcoin to new all-time highs, achieved in part by the company’s purchases. MicroStrategy now owns 423,650 bitcoins. It bought 149,880 of them in four different purchases over the past month, beginning Nov. 11.
As part of MicroStrategy’s hot streak this year, activists have been pushing bitcoin investing as an agenda item in shareholder meetings at companies like Microsoft and Amazon. Mining stocks like Mara Holdings have also begun employing Saylor’s bitcoin yield strategy.
Palantir Technologies
and Axon Enterprise
will also be joining the Nasdaq 100 later this month. Illumina
, Moderna
and Super Micro Computer
will be removed from the index.
Last year, the Nasdaq 100 added six companies in its annual reconstitution, including DoorDash. Five of those six stocks rose the Monday after the announcement, with an average move of 1.21%.
—With reporting by Jesse Pound
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