Concerns Grow As Strategy Issues More Stocks To Buy Bitcoin

Strategy’s latest stock sale to buy more Bitcoin has put investor nerves on edge, as numbers and timing raise fresh doubts about shareholder dilution and the company’s funding choices. Strategy: Rapid Shift In Equity Policy Based on reports, Strategy changed its public guidance on August 18 and then, within days, moved to issue a large amount of new ￰1￱ analyst JA Maartunn traced the pattern: no fresh issuance on Aug. 3, roughly $18 million on Aug. 10, about $51 million on Aug. 17 — then close to $360 million raised in a single week after the guidance ￰2￱ sharp jump in new capital has drawn scrutiny from market watchers who worry the company is leaning on share issuance to keep buying ￰3￱ new rules link stock sales to something called market net asset value, or mNAV , which compares the company’s share price to the value of its ￰4￱ running out of steam?

Before Aug 18, almost no new money came into $MSTR : Aug 3: $0 Aug 10: ~$18M Aug 17: ~$51M But after they dropped the “no dilution below 2.5x mNAV” promise, $359M was raised by issuing new shares (see tweet below). Policy changed.… ￰0￱ ￰5￱ — Maartunn (@JA_Maartun) August 26, 2025 If the stock trades at more than four times its mNAV, the company will sell lots of shares to buy more ￰6￱ it trades between 2.5 and four times, it will sell some shares, but more ￰7￱ if the stock drops below 2.5 times, share sales would mostly go toward paying debt or covering dividends instead of buying ￰8￱ add that if Strategy shares trade under 1x mNAV, the company could borrow to repurchase ￰9￱ framework reversed an earlier pledge not to sell shares for Bitcoin purchases when mNAV was below 2.5x — a reversal that critics point to as the key ￰10￱ The Purchase Was Financed According to the company’s SEC filing, nearly $310 million came from at-the-market common stock sales at an average share price of $354, plus roughly $47 million from preferred share ￰11￱ total, the firm raised a little more than $357 million and used the proceeds to buy 3,081 ￰12￱ purchase pushed its holdings to 632,457 ￰13￱ stack of 632,457 coins equals roughly 3% of circulating supply, based on market counts cited in filings and market ￰14￱ company’s public target remains at 1 million coins — a goal that, by the reported figures, is now about 60% ￰15￱ Risk And Debt Capacity Investors focused on dilution have reason to be ￰16￱ new share increases the number of claims on the same Bitcoin pool, and when issuance happens while the stock trades at low multiples to mNAV, existing holders see their per-share Bitcoin backing ￰17￱ say Strategy’s debt sits at about 20% of Bitcoin NAV with headroom up to 30%, giving it borrowing room — but choosing to issue equity at low mNAVs still weakens per-share ￰18￱ image from Meta, chart from TradingView