MicroStrategy buys 24,869 Bitcoin for $2.01 billion

Strategy said on May 18 that it bought 24,869 bitcoin for about $2.01 billion, adding to the largest corporate bitcoin treasury in the public markets. The purchase covered the period from May 11 through May 17, according to the company's latest filing and its bitcoin purchases page. The company said it paid an average of $80,985 per bitcoin in the latest tranche. After the purchase, Strategy said it held 843,738 bitcoin acquired for $63.87 billion at an average price of $75,700 per coin. ### How large was this week's purchase? The 24,869-bitcoin purchase was one of Strategy's larger weekly additions this year, based on the running acquisition log posted on the company's website. The company listed the acquisition cost at $2.014 billion on its purchases page, which aligns with the roughly $2.01 billion figure disclosed in the filing. At $80,985 per bitcoin, the latest average purchase price was below the $95,284 average Strategy disclosed for a 22,305-bitcoin purchase dated January 20, 2026, but above the $74,395 average it reported for a 34,164-bitcoin purchase dated April 20, 2026. (strategy.com) Those figures appear in the same purchase log the company uses to track its treasury activity. ### Where did the cash come from? (strategy.com) Strategy said the purchase was funded with proceeds from its at-the-market, or ATM, issuance programs. In the same filing, the company said it sold 19,519,801 shares of its STRC preferred stock for net proceeds of $1.949 billion and 430,344 shares of its MSTR common stock for net proceeds of $83.7 million during May 11 through May 17. Total net proceeds for the period were $2.0327 billion. (strategy.com) The filing also listed remaining issuance capacity under several programs as of May 17. Strategy said it still had $17.5108 billion of STRC, $1.6193 billion of STRF, $2.1 billion of STRK, $4.0148 billion of STRD and $26.2657 billion of MSTR available for issuance and sale under those ATM programs. ### How much bitcoin does Strategy now control? (stocktitan.net) Strategy's purchases page listed total holdings of 843,738 bitcoin as of May 18. The same page put the aggregate acquisition cost at $63.871 billion and showed an average purchase price of $75,700 per bitcoin. The company's tracker also showed a 2026 year-to-date BTC Yield of 12.6% and BTC Gain YTD of 84,987 bitcoin. (stocktitan.net) Strategy uses those metrics on its dashboard to describe changes in bitcoin exposure relative to its assumed diluted share count. ### Why does the filing mention several ticker symbols? The May 18 filing referred to multiple listed securities because Strategy has been using more than one capital-raising instrument to finance bitcoin purchases. (strategy.com) Alongside its Nasdaq-listed Class A common stock, ticker MSTR, the filing cited STRC, STRF, STRK and STRD preferred securities with separate remaining issuance amounts. Strategy's investor relations filings page lists those securities and shows a steady stream of 8-K reports in May 2026 tied to ATM activity, bitcoin purchases and related financing disclosures. ### Where can investors track the next update? Strategy's investor relations site says its SEC filings page and bitcoin purchases dashboard are public disclosure channels for these updates. (stocktitan.net) The purchases page is dated by reporting day and currently shows the new entry for May 18, 2026. May 25, 2026 is the next Monday after the reported May 11-May 17 purchase window, and Strategy has often used Monday 8-K filings to disclose the prior week's ATM sales and bitcoin acquisitions, according to the sequence of filings listed on its investor relations page. (strategy.com)