MicroStrategy Announces $1B Stock Offering With Plans To Buy More Bitcoin With Proceeds

What Happened: Shares of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy Incorporated MSTR surged over 15% on Monday after the company said it would sell $1 billion worth of its shares over time.

According to an SEC filing, the company plans to use some of the proceeds from the sale of its Class A common stock to acquire even more Bitcoin BTC/USD.

However, the filing stated that MicroStrategy was yet to determine the amount of net proceeds to be used specifically for any particular purpose.

“As a result, management will retain broad discretion over the allocation of the net proceeds of any offering," said the company in the filing.

MicroStrategy Launches “At the Market” Securities Offering for Flexibility to Sell Up to $1 billion of its Class A Common Stock Over Time $MSTRhttps://t.co/qouK8pFmBF

— Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) June 14, 2021

Why It Matters: The announcement of this stock offering comes just after the company completed a $500 million junk bond sale for the purpose of acquiring even more Bitcoin.

At the time of writing, MicroStrategy held as much as 92,079 bitcoins in a newly formed subsidiary called “MacroStategy LLC.”

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The company’s CEO Michael Saylor is widely regarded as one of the most bullish Bitcoin proponents in the industry and is believed to have persuaded Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk to buy Bitcoin.

Yes. I have purchased over $1.3 billion in #BTC in past months & would be happy to share my playbook with you offline - from one rocket scientist to another.

— Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) December 20, 2020

“If you want to do your shareholders a $100 billion favor, convert the $TSLA balance sheet from USD to BTC. Other firms on the S&P 500 would follow your lead & in time it would grow to become a $1 trillion favor,” said Saylor to Musk on Twitter.