In brief
- Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases or sales in the week to August 16, leaving holdings at 840,447 BTC.
- It raised $333.7 million selling MSTR shares, splitting the proceeds between preferred dividends, a STRC buyback and its dollar reserve.
- The firm's USD reserve reached $4.8 billion, with $653 million left under the preferred repurchase program.
Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases or sales last week, according to an 8-K filed Monday, ending a run of weekly disposals that had funded its dividends and buybacks since June. Its stack stands at 840,447 BTC, unchanged, at an average purchase price of $75,385.
The Bitcoin treasury company instead raised $333.7 million net by selling 3,458,866 MSTR shares, at an average of about $96.48, down from $99.17 the week before. The filing splits the proceeds three ways: $52.4 million to pay dividends on its STRC preferred stock, $132.2 million to buy that stock back, and $149.1 million into its dollar reserve.
Strategy increased its USD Reserve by $150M and repurchased $132M of $STRC. This increased USD Duration by 41 days to 2.8 yrs and tightened STRC's BTC Credit by 4 bps to 114 bps. As of 8/16/26, we hold ₿840,447 in our BTC Reserve and $4.8B in our USD Reserve. $MSTR…
That buyback took in 1,388,720 STRC shares and leaves $653 million of the $1 billion Digital Credit Securities Repurchase Program announced on June 29. A separate $1 billion authorization covering MSTR stock remains untouched. The dollar reserve, which Strategy holds against preferred dividends and interest, reached $4.8 billion, up from $4.65 billion a week earlier.
The selling pauses
Strategy has sold 6,948 BTC for around $432.5 million since May, starting with 32 BTC in its first disposal since 2022 and running through three consecutive weekly sales in July and August. Last week's sale of 1,690 BTC raised $108.6 million, which went straight into buying back the same preferred stock that equity issuance covered this week.
Those disposals fall under a capital framework introduced in June that permits up to $1.25 billion of Bitcoin sales to fund dividends, interest, buybacks and the reserve. About $429 million of that capacity has been used, leaving roughly $820 million, and none of it was drawn last week.
The company has not bought Bitcoin since June either, and at around $63,500, where Bitcoin traded Monday, its holdings are worth about $53.4 billion against the $63.36 billion it paid, a shortfall of around $9.9 billion.