MicroStrategy’s HODL strategy is continuing to reward investors.
The company said on Monday that it acquired an additional 3,000 bitcoins
for a total of $155 million between Feb. 15 and Feb. 25. MicroStrategy, along with its subsidiaries, now owns about 193,000 bitcoins worth $11 billion.
Michael Saylor, the company’s chairman and ex-CEO and one of the cryptocurrency’s principal evangelists, touted the latest purchase in a post on X, noting that MicroStrategy’s average purchase price over time is $31,544. As of Tuesday, bitcoin is trading at just under $57,000.
MicroStrategy shares surged 16% on Monday and another 10% on Tuesday to close at $871.80.
Founded in 1989, MicroStategy has a business in enterprise software and cloud-based services, but its shareholder value is almost entirely tied to its bitcoin ownership, effectively making the company a proxy for the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.