Michael Saylor waits for key decision as Strategy qualifies for the S&P 500

Michael Saylor’s Strategy has officially qualified for potential inclusion in the S&P 500 after a strong record in Q2, which brought in $10 billion in net income and a tremendous growth in its BTC ￰0￱ has managed to meet all of the S&P 500’s requirements, that is being listed in the US, having a market capitalization that is far above the $8.2 billion threshold, trading volumes that are more than 250,000 shares per day, a public float of more than 50%, and positive earnings in the most recent quarter and over the last twelve months. S&P 500’s new inclusion announcements find Strategy ready The corporation made $14 billion in operating income and $10 billion in net income in the second quarter of ￰1￱ was equal to $32.6 in diluted earnings per ￰2￱ company also made $114.5 million in sales in the last three ￰3￱ is a little 2.7% rise from the same time last ￰4￱ services grew by almost 70%.

Interestingly, the next opportunity for inclusion is the September 2025 ￰5￱ are due on September 5, and the revisions will happen on September ￰6￱ S&P Dow Jones Indices committee still has the final say, but Strategy’s qualification shows how Bitcoin is becoming more important in mainstream financial ￰7￱ results are a big change from previous ￰8￱ January 2025, new fair-value accounting standards went into ￰9￱ let Strategy record unrealized gains on its digital asset holdings, which directly increased ￰10￱ corporation made a ton of money on paper when Bitcoin traded above $100,000 and changed its balance ￰11￱ had 597,325 Bitcoins as of June 30, the company pointed out a BTC Yield of 19.7% year-to-date.

Then, financial analyst Jeff Walton said that Strategy has a 91% chance of qualifying for ￰12￱ the time of his analysis, BTC was trading around $106,044. Walton pinpointed $95,240 as the critical ￰13￱ Bitcoin had closed below that threshold, Strategy would fail to meet earnings eligibility criteria. However, the coin maintained over $100K level, going up to $124k. Q3 threatens to eat up Strategy’s gains In August, shares of Strategy ￰14￱ 15%.

This has taken away a lot of the extra value the company used to have over its Bitcoin ￰15￱ are now more doubtful about the corporation, which has historically been a good indicator of how investors feel about ￰16￱ company’s financing methods are at the heart of the worry. Strategy’s new preferred stock, which it calls its main way to buy Bitcoin in the future, hasn’t brought much interest. A recent sale brought in only $47 ￰17￱ is far less than Saylor’s goal of capital ￰18￱ corporation has returned to issuing common shares to make up for the shortfall, even though it promised not to dilute existing ￰19￱ awaits S&P 500 inclusion to assure its investors There is a lot at stake for more than just one ￰20￱ institutions had started incorporating Saylor’s ￰21￱ to BitcoinTreasuries.

net, Saylor’s playbook—raise debt and equity, purchase Bitcoin, let the market assign a premium, repeat—led to a wave of treasury firms that now own more than $108 billion, or 4.7% of Bitcoin’s ￰22￱ to analysts, if Strategy’s premium falls, investors may lose faith in the model itself. However, Saylor has dismissed the criticism, posting an AI-generated image of himself walking past a giant ￰23￱ company didn’t respond to requests for ￰24￱ supporters argue that maintaining flexibility may benefit the company should it gain inclusion in the S&P 500 or if Bitcoin booms anew. Meanwhile, attention is shifting toward other crypto assets like Ether and Solana, seen by some as better suited to decentralized finance.

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