Strive Bought $280 Million in Bitcoin but Per-Share Bitcoin Exposure Rose Only 1.72%
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Strive reportedly purchased $280 million worth of Bitcoin, but the company's Bitcoin holdings per common share increased by only 1.72%. The modest per-share gain suggests significant shareholder dilution accompanied the purchase, contrasting with the approach taken by Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), which has focused on preferred stock buybacks to concentrate Bitcoin exposure per share.
WHY IT MATTERS
When a company buys Bitcoin using money raised by selling new shares of its own stock, it is a bit like splitting a pizza into more slices — the pizza might be bigger, but each person's slice does not grow as much as you might expect. This is called dilution. In Strive's case, even though the company added $280 million in Bitcoin, existing shareholders saw their individual share of the Bitcoin go up by less than 2%. For anyone new to crypto and public companies, this is an important lesson: the total amount of Bitcoin a company holds matters less than how much Bitcoin backs each share you own. Different companies use different strategies to manage this, and the financing method can make a big difference in what shareholders actually get.
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