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Michael Saylor-Backed Strategy Buys Just 250 Bitcoin, Its Smallest Purchase Of 2026

To fund its Bitcoin purchase, Strategy sold 125,183 MSTR shares for approximately $21 million.

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Oct 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM UTC · 2 min read

Michael Saylor-Backed Strategy Buys Just 250 Bitcoin, Its Smallest Purchase Of 2026
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  • To fund its Bitcoin purchase, Strategy sold 125,183 MSTR shares for approximately $21 million.

  • It also repurchased 1.9 million STRC preferred shares for $192.4 million.

  • The company reported $4.88 billion in its USD Reserve and another $640.5 million in USD Cash as of Monday.

Shares of Michael Saylor-backed Strategy (MSTR) edged higher in pre-market trade on Monday as Bitcoin (BTC) tried to hold above $83,000, after the company announced the smallest BTC purchase of the year.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Strategy said that it had bought 250 BTC over the past week at an average price of $86,194 per Bitcoin. The purchase brings Strategy's total Bitcoin stash to 848,250 BTC, bought at an average price of $75,444 per Bitcoin.

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This is the smallest Bitcoin purchase the firm has made in 2026 and the 14th-smallest overall in its history as a Bitcoin treasury.

At the time of writing, Bitcoin's price was trading at around $83,100, flat in the last 24 hours. MSTR's stock, meanwhile, edged 0.6% higher in premarket trade. On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around Bitcoin and MSTR shares remained in 'bearish' territory over the past day.

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