Strategy Boosts Bitcoin Holdings With Massive 24,869 BTC Purchase

Key Insights

• Strategy added 24,869 Bitcoin to its treasury for $2.01 billion between May 11 and May 17.
• The company now holds 843,738 BTC, equal to 4.02 percent of the total fixed supply.
• BTC Yield year-to-date rose to 12.64 percent on the latest purchase.

Strategy expanded its Bitcoin holdings again last week, adding 24,869 BTC for roughly $2.01 billion between May 11 and May 17. The purchase pushed the company’s total treasury to 843,738 BTC despite broader crypto market weakness.

Executive Chairman Michael Saylor disclosed the acquisition in Strategy’s latest filing on May 18. The company paid an average price of $80,985 per coin during the buying window.

The latest addition marked Strategy’s second-largest weekly Bitcoin purchase of 2026 after the April 20 acquisition of 34,164 BTC.

Strategy’s Latest Bitcoin Purchase Reaches $2.01 Billion

The 24,869 Bitcoin purchase is one of the largest single-week additions Strategy has filed in 2026, second only to the April 20 tranche of 34,164 BTC.

The transaction was completed at an average price of $80,985 per coin, with the total outlay coming to approximately $2.01 billion.

The buying window covered the seven days between May 11 and May 17, with the filing dated May 18. The size of the tranche follows a much smaller 535 BTC purchase the previous week, when Strategy paid $42.98 million at an average price of $80,340 per coin.

The company has run a steady mix of at-the-market equity issuance, preferred stock sales, and convertible note offerings since the start of 2024, with the proceeds from each capital event flowing directly into weekly BTC purchases.

The May 11 to May 17 window saw a larger pool of cash available for deployment than the previous week.

The May 18 filing brings Strategy’s accumulated weekly purchases for 2026 close to 174,000 BTC, with the company keeping a consistent weekly cadence through most of the year.

Holdings Cross 843,000 BTC and 4.02 Percent of Supply

With the latest purchase, Strategy now holds 843,738 BTC, equal to 4.017800 percent of the total fixed supply.

The company remains the single largest corporate holder of the asset by a wide margin.

The cumulative cost basis on the stack stands at approximately $63.87 billion, with an average cost of $75,700 per coin. The Bitcoin NAV at the close of the reporting date came to $65.21 billion based on the prevailing market price.

SATS per basic share now stands at 239,930, up from 233,176 after the May 11 filing. Sats per diluted share rose to 219,626 from 213,391 over the same period.

The percentage of total supply held by Strategy has now crossed the 4 percent threshold for the first time, up from 3.899376 percent at the May 11 reporting date. The latest purchase alone added roughly 0.12 percentage points to the figure.

BTC Yield Reaches 12.64 Percent Year-to-Date

Strategy’s BTC Yield metric came in at 12.64 percent year-to-date through May 17, with the quarter-to-date figure at 8.89 percent.

The company’s BTC Gain year-to-date stands at 84,986.4 coins, with a dollar value of approximately $6.57 billion. The quarter-to-date BTC gain figure sits at 67,751.79 coins, equal to about $5.24 billion in dollar terms.

The latest week added close to 3.2 percentage points to the year-to-date BTC yield figure, the second-largest single-week jump of 2026.

The April 20 filing added a similar-sized yield contribution thanks to its 34,164 BTC purchase. The May 11 filing added only a fraction of a percentage point due to its much smaller size.

BTC Yield Metric Climbs to 12.64%

Strategy also reported a year-to-date BTC Yield of 12.64% through May 17. The company uses the internal metric to measure Bitcoin growth relative to diluted shares outstanding. Quarter-to-date BTC Yield reached 8.89%.

Strategy said its year-to-date BTC Gain totaled nearly 85,000 coins, with an estimated dollar value of approximately $6.57 billion based on current market prices.

The latest purchase contributed one of the biggest weekly increases to the BTC Yield metric this year. Only the April 20 acquisition produced a larger impact after the company bought more than 34,000 BTC in a single week.

The filing also showed continued growth in Bitcoin exposure per share. SATS per diluted share rose from 213,391 to 219,626 during the latest reporting period.

Despite the ongoing accumulation, Strategy now faces growing pressure from Bitcoin’s weakening short-term structure. BTC remains below major resistance levels while spot Bitcoin ETFs recently posted more than $1 billion in weekly outflows.

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