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Strategy now holds 818,869 Bitcoin, worth roughly $66 billion at current prices \u2014 a position that has become the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve anywhere in the world. That stockpile keeps growing, and the instrument fueling much of the buying just broke a record.<\/p>\n

A New Kind Of Funding Tool<\/h2>\n

STRC<\/a>, the company\u2019s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, recorded $1.53 billion in trading volume on Thursday \u2014 the highest single-day figure it has ever posted.<\/p>\n

Chairman Michael Saylor announced the milestone<\/a> on social media, calling it an all-time high in liquidity. The preferred stock, known informally as Stretch, has become Strategy\u2019s go-to method for raising money to buy Bitcoin in 2026, stepping in as other funding channels have grown harder to access.<\/p>\n

Senior convertible notes and at-the-market equity offerings have both tightened over the past year, pushing the company toward preferred stock as its primary capital source.<\/p>\n

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All-time high volume. $1.53B of liquidity. Two cents of volatility. Closed at par. $STRC<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/aS0dSlkm7d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Stretch works by paying investors an 11.5% dividend without touching the company\u2019s common shares. That structure keeps existing shareholders from being diluted while still bringing in fresh capital.<\/p>\n

Based on data from the STRC.live tracker, Thursday\u2019s trading performance could allow Strategy<\/a> to raise an estimated $735 million \u2014 enough, in theory, to acquire around 9,066 Bitcoin. Whether the company will move forward with a purchase based on those funds remains unclear.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Broader Bitcoin Buying Spree<\/h2>\n

Strategy\u2019s pace of acquisition has picked up sharply. The company has bought 56,770 Bitcoin since April and more than 101,000 since March, bouncing back after a slow February.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s own price movement has helped the math: the recent rally to around $81,000 pushed above Strategy\u2019s average purchase price of $75,543, putting its holdings up 7%.<\/p>\n

During a first-quarter earnings call on May 5, Saylor said he wants Stretch to become the largest credit instrument in the world.<\/p>\n

Reports indicate the company posted a $1.25 billion net loss in Q1 as Bitcoin fell during that period, though the situation has since shifted with the price recovery.<\/p>\n

Strategy is not alone in using this type of structure. Strive announced Thursday that holders of its own preferred stock, SATA, would begin receiving daily dividends starting June 16 \u2014 a faster payout schedule than the monthly distributions Stretch offers.<\/p>\n

Tokyo-based Metaplanet<\/a> has also raised funds through preferred stock instruments called MARS and MERCURY to buy Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

A Crowded Field With One Giant<\/p>\n

Nearly 200 public companies now hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets. Strategy remains far ahead of all of them. Its 818,869-coin position dwarfs every other corporate holder, and the company shows no signs of slowing the accumulation. Preferred stock, for now, is the engine making that possible.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Free3D, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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