An excellent perspective 👏
As per usual, the noise about Strategy is deafening right now.
Many people who have zero idea what they are talking about are calling for an imminent death spiral, likely influenced by low IQ doomer slop articles that were written for clickbait engagement purposes.
Let's be objective about how things stand right now by looking at the entirety of the capital structure and compare it to the BTC bottom in 2022.
2022:
Bitcoin price: $15,760
MSTR BTC reserve: 132,500 BTC
Net senior claims on balance sheet: $2.356 billion
Senior claims in BTC: 149,503 BTC
Basic shares: 115.48m
Common equity Bitcoin exposure: -14,700 sats/share
Now:
Bitcoin price: $63,511
MSTR BTC reserve: 846,842 BTC
Net senior claims: $21.1 billion
Senior claims in BTC: 332,226 BTC
Basic shares: 356.32m
CEBE: 144,400 sats/share
At the 2022 bottom, BTC-only CEBE was NEGATIVE.
Yes, the residual for MSTR holders was NEGATIVE, and the stock never went to $0. It traded between $10-$20 near the bottom as the market was pricing in future potential.
The fiat senior claims were larger than the Bitcoin reserve when measured in BTC.
Today, even with the giant preferred stack, CEBE is roughly 144k sats per basic share.
Gross BPS went from about 114.7k sats to 237.7k sats, while senior-claim drag went from 129.5k sats/share to 93.2k sats/share.
So Strategy went from “common equity is underwater on a pure BTC residual basis” to “common still has a six-figure sats residual after debt and preferred.”
It was WAY WORSE four years ago.
If Strategy survived 2022, they're going to survive 2026.