{"id":23601,"date":"2025-05-02T11:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/strategys-losses-surpass-4-billion-since-start-of-year\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T08:19:36","slug":"strategys-losses-surpass-4-billion-since-start-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/strategys-losses-surpass-4-billion-since-start-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy&#8217;s Losses Surpass $4 Billion Since Start of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a 13.7% return on its Bitcoin holdings, Strategy fell short of analysts&#8217; profit and loss expectations. According to the first-quarter report, the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250501465720\/en\/Strategy-Announces-First-Quarter-2025-Financial-Results\">earned<\/a> $5.8 billion from the leading cryptocurrency since the beginning of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang announced an increase in annual targets: the portfolio&#8217;s return is expected to rise to 25%, with profits reaching $15 billion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s revenue fell by 3.6% year-on-year to $111.1 million. The net loss amounted to $4.2 billion ($16.49 per share), sharply contrasting with Wall Street&#8217;s forecast of an $0.11 loss per share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strategy&#8217;s operating expenses in the first quarter surged nearly 2000% year-on-year to $6 billion, primarily due to an unrealized loss on Bitcoin amounting to $5.9 billion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The firm also announced a $21 billion stock issuance to finance new purchases of the leading cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Despite MSTR shares falling to $380.11 after the close of trading on May 1, the company&#8217;s stock has risen by 31.76% since the start of the year (data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance\/quote\/MSTR:NASDAQ\">Google Finance<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-02-105441.webp\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-05-02-105441\" class=\"wp-image-257943\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Google Finance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcointreasuries.net\/\">BitcoinTreasuries<\/a>, at the time of writing, Strategy holds 553,555 BTC (2.63% of issuance) valued at $53.38 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/strategy-reports-5-91-billion-in-unrealized-losses\">reported<\/a> unrealized losses amounting to $5.91 billion for the first quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a 13.7% return on its Bitcoin holdings, Strategy fell short of analysts&#8217; profit and loss expectations. According to the first-quarter report, the firm earned $5.8 billion from the leading cryptocurrency since the beginning of the year.\u00a0 Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang announced an increase in annual targets: the portfolio&#8217;s return is expected to rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1538,1207,1252],"class_list":["post-23601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-purchase","tag-microstrategy","tag-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}