preferred stock
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Shares of Strategy and its biggest dividend-paying preferred stock, Stretch, have reversed some losses since the plan was announced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
To calculate enterprise value, Strategy adds the market value of its common stock to the principal amount of its debt and the par value of its preferred stock, then subtracts cash.
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
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
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
