Strategy Holds Preferred STRC Dividend at 12% as Price Still Below Par

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor told investors in his STRC preferred shares that their August dividend would be the same as July’s, at 12%.

Strategy Holds Preferred STRC Dividend at 12% as Price Still Below Par

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Strategy leaves preferred STRC dividend at 12% as price still below par

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Aug 2, 2026

Investors have previously benefited from a payout boost when the preferred STRC shares traded well below their $100 par value for a month.

While Strategy’s preferred STRC shares ended July well below their $100 par value, investors were told that their August dividend will not increase, holding at 12%.

Executive chairman Michael Saylor delivered the news in a

tweet

on Saturday, continuing to pitch STRC as a way to “stretch your income.” August will be the second month that the dividend will be paid semi-monthly after

shareholders approved that change

in June.

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

STRC shares continued to trade significantly below their $100 par value in July.

Source:

TradingView

On Friday, Strategy CEO Phong Le

reiterated

that management’s “corporate objective is for STRC to trade at $99-$100 over time,” without elaborating when investors might expect that to transpire.

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Building cash reserve to make preferred payouts

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. “Bitcoin Drive engaged,” read his X post, following a familiar pattern of posting a chart of Strategy’s BTC buys from Saylortracker.com to start off the week.

Last week, Strategy

reported an $8.22 billion second-quarter net loss

, driven primarily by an $8.32 billion unrealized loss on its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings as the cryptocurrency’s price declined during the quarter.

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.

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.

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