MicroStrategy Chairman and Founder Michael Saylor unveiled today that the company has further bolstered its Bitcoin holdings, having acquired an additional 850 BTC in January for a hefty $37.2 million investment. This now takes the company’s total Bitcoin stash up to a staggering 190,000 BTC. The company also made public its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2023.
MicroStrategy Financial Performance for Q4 2023:
In a press statement, the renowned as prominent corporate Bitcoin holder and largest independent publicly traded business intelligence firm, MicroStrategy, said:
2023 was an extraordinary year for MicroStrategy as we strategically raised capital to significantly increase our bitcoin holdings, and continued to innovate, including by developing and launching MicroStrategy AI, our first to market AI-based BI tool.
According to Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang, the company’s fortified BTC holdings and utilization of cash reserves drive incremental shareholder value through strategic capital market activities. With a total purchase price of $31,224, it owns 190,000 BTC.
MicroStrategy reported total revenues of $124.5 million, slightly under the same period last year. Product license and subscription services revenue dropped by 11.4%, with product support revenue declining by 2.1%. The company attributed these fluctuations to various market dynamics and strategic shifts.
However, regardless of the changes in revenues, the gross profit that MicroStrategy reported was very impressive at $96.3 million at a very good gross margin of 77.3%. Loss from operations for the fourth quarter was reported at $42.8 million, a marked improvement from the previous year. MicroStrategy, as of December 31, held cash and cash equivalents of $46.8 million, slightly above the prior year’s cash figure. The carrying value of the company’s digital assets as of that date was about $3.626 billion based on its holding of approximately 189,150 BTC and an average cost of approximately $19,172 per coin.
The company has also caused a stir with its at-the-market equity offering programs, under which it sold upwards of 2.2 million shares of its class A common stock in the fourth quarter alone, netting substantial proceeds. The company still had excess capacity under its shelf registration to make future sales of equity.
On the whole, strategic moves by MicroStrategy in terms of acquiring cryptocurrencies and the way this company manages its financials place it as one of the avant-garde in the area between digital assets and business intelligence.
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