{"id":684,"date":"2026-08-02T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/?btc_ct_news=strategy-leaves-preferred-strc-dividend-at-12-as-price-still-below-par"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:12:04","slug":"strategy-leaves-preferred-strc-dividend-at-12-as-price-still-below-par","status":"publish","type":"btc_ct_news","link":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/?btc_ct_news=strategy-leaves-preferred-strc-dividend-at-12-as-price-still-below-par","title":{"rendered":"Strategy leaves preferred STRC dividend at 12% as price still below par"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Strategy\u2019s preferred STRC shares ended July well below their $100 par value, investors were told that their August dividend will not increase, holding at 12%.<\/p>\n

Executive chairman Michael Saylor delivered the news in a tweet<\/a> on Saturday, continuing to pitch STRC as a way to \u201cstretch your income.\u201d August will be the second month that the dividend will be paid semi-monthly after shareholders approved that change<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

STRC shares closed at $89.46 on Friday, clocking a 5.42% price increase for the month which began with a dividend hike \u2014 50 basis points to 12% \u2014 after a poor stock performance in June. The volume on the Nasdaq-traded shares on Friday were about two-thirds of their daily average.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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STRC shares continued to trade significantly below their $100 par value in July.<\/em>Source: <\/em>TradingView<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

On Friday, Strategy CEO Phong Le reiterated<\/a> that management\u2019s \u201ccorporate objective is for STRC to trade at $99-$100 over time,\u201d without elaborating when investors might expect that to transpire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Related: <\/strong><\/em>Bitcoin ETFs end July in the green despite late-month selling<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Building cash reserve to make preferred payouts<\/h2>\n

Saylor, however, did take to social media on Sunday to dangle the possibility that the company will be making an announcement of a change in its Bitcoin treasury holdings. \u201cBitcoin Drive engaged,\u201d read his X post, following a familiar pattern of posting a chart of Strategy\u2019s BTC buys from Saylortracker.com to start off the week. <\/p>\n

Last week, Strategy reported an $8.22 billion second-quarter net loss<\/a>, driven primarily by an $8.32 billion unrealized loss on its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings as the cryptocurrency\u2019s price declined during the quarter.<\/p>\n

The Bitcoin treasury company said it has built a $3.75 billion cash reserve to support preferred stock payouts following the launch of its BTC monetization program.<\/p>\n

Strategy also said it has built a $3.75 billion U.S. dollar reserve, enough to cover more than two years of preferred dividend payments and interest obligations. The company recently repurchased $25 million of its STRC preferred shares at a discount to par and said it intends to continue buying the securities while they trade below $100.<\/p>\n

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Source: Cointelegraph<\/a> \/ Robert Lakin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investors have previously benefited from a payout boost when the preferred STRC shares traded well below their $100 par value for a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":685,"template":"","btc_ct_section":[7],"class_list":["post-684","btc_ct_news","type-btc_ct_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","btc_ct_section-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/btc_ct_news\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/btc_ct_news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/btc_ct_news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"btc_ct_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.btcethdata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbtc_ct_section&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}