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Strategy, Strive face balancing act between bitcoin buying and preferred stock dividends
Strategy与Strive面临比特币购买与优先股股息之间的平衡难题
Strategy and Strive must weigh future bitcoin purchases against preferred stock dividend obligations, a financing tradeoff analysts expect to shape how this channel complements the ETF market.
Judgment
Strategy's and Strive's treasury teams must decide, sale by sale, whether another perpetual preferred issue still earns its keep: each raise buys bitcoin but adds a recurring dividend, and Strategy's five classes make it the model's bellwether.
Basis
Fidelity research analyst Zack Wainwright wrote in a Tuesday report that preferred stock has financed purchases of 135,979 BTC from 2025 through Oct. 5, more than 0.5% of bitcoin's maximum supply, and Fidelity puts the bitcoin-focused preferred market at roughly $12 billion against a $150 trillion global fixed-income market. StoneX's Mark Palmer said perpetual preferreds "brought bitcoin to income investors, a group that ETFs never reached," while Bitwise's Ryan Rasmussen expects ETFs to stay the larger demand channel with preferreds a "second tailwind" for yield buyers. CoinShares' James Butterfill said STRC alone, paying a variable dividend currently around 12%, raised $7.5 billion during 2026 through late July. The mechanism is cumulative: more shares in circulation mean larger dividend payments, so servicing the preferred competes with new bitcoin purchases for the same cash, and Two Prime's Alex Blume noted STRC and Strive's SATA also price off management competence, issuer obligations and capital-market conditions.
- BTC funded since 2025 (to Oct. 5)135,979 BTC
- Bitcoin preferred market$12 billion
- STRC raised 2026 to late July$7.5 billion
- STRC variable dividend~12%
Unclear The source gives no figure for Strategy's or Strive's total annual preferred dividend bill, nor any coverage ratio showing cash available to meet it.
Next Watch Strategy's next preferred offering for its size and dividend rate, and whether STRC trades back toward par after its late-June dip into the $70 range.