{"id":34444,"date":"2021-01-09T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34444"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:35:23","slug":"morgan-stanley-acquires-11-stake-in-microstrategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/morgan-stanley-acquires-11-stake-in-microstrategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley acquires 11% stake in MicroStrategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The financial conglomerate Morgan Stanley has acquired 792,627 shares of MicroStrategy, a company that has aggressively invested in bitcoin. This is according to information on the SEC’s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now the investment giant owns a 10.9% stake in the Nasdaq-listed provider of analytics software. The deal is likely to have influenced MSTR’s stock price, which has risen by more than 80% in the last 30 days\u2014from $286 to the current $531.<\/p>\n

\"Morgan<\/p>\n

Data: Nasdaq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MicroStrategy \u2014 one of the institutions that pioneered the trend of investing in Bitcoin as a hedge against the dollar’s depreciation.<\/p>\n

In August, the company acquired 21,454 BTC<\/a> for more than $250 million. A month later, the firm invested additional $175 million<\/a>, and in December another $650 million<\/a> using debt financing. In total, MicroStrategy invested in Bitcoin $1.12 billion, becoming the owner of 70,470 BTC \u2014 valued at more than $2.8 billion at the time of writing. more than $2.8 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor expressed the belief<\/a> that the influx of money from financial assets into Bitcoin is not a bubble.<\/p>\n

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