{"id":410271,"date":"2026-02-06T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410271\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:16:07","slug":"fourth-quarter-loss-comes-in-at-12-4-billion-or-42-93-per-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410271\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth quarter loss comes in at $12.4 billion, or $42.93 per share."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy (MSTR) reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/press\/strategy-announces-fourth-quarter-2025-financial-results_02-05-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a net loss of $12.4 billion<\/a> in the fourth quarter of 2025 as the price of bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/price\/bitcoin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BTC$71,091.27<\/a> tumbled from about $120,000 on October 1 to roughly $89,000 to close the year.<\/p>\n<p>Things have only gotten worse since, with the price of bitcoin falling hard in recent weeks and finally crashing on Thursday to the $64,000 level ahead of the Strategy results. Strategy shares closed the session down 17% in one of their worst performances in years. The stock&#8217;s up modestly in after hours trade.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company, which is the largest corporate owner of bitcoin, currently holds 713,502 BTC, purchased at an average price of $76,052 (which includes several billion dollars in purchases since the end of the fourth quarter).<\/p>\n<p>The company ended the year with $2.25 billion in cash, which would allow for 2.5 years of dividend coverage on its preferred stock as well as interest on debt.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth quarter results being of little surprise, investors will look to the earnings call at 5 pm ET for Saylor and team&#8217;s comments about their plans given the current state of the market.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2026\/02\/05\/strategy-has-usd6-5-billion-loss-on-btc-but-continues-trading-at-premium-to-value-of-its-assets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strategy has $6.5 billion loss on BTC, but continues trading at premium to value of its assets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strategy (MSTR) reported a net loss of $12.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 as the price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,1107,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-strategy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}