preferred stock
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Strategy sold more than 3,000 bitcoins to raise cash to pay dividends on its preferred stock — something Executive Chair Michael Saylor had previously said it didn’t need to do.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Strategy had previously been issuing preferred stock and selling common stock to raise money to buy and hold bitcoin.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Strategy maintains a U.S. dollar reserve to pay dividends on the company’s preferred stock and interest on outstanding debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The company said it used the money raised to fund payment of distributions on preferred stock, and to replenish the money used from its U.S. dollar reserves for the distributions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Treasury didn’t ask for a piece of the action, or management changes, or for that matter anything at all except for a teaspoon of out-of-the-money warrants and preferred stock.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
