MSTR Company Overview
MicroStrategy Incorporated is a provider of enterprise software platforms around the world. The Company is engaged in the design, development, marketing and sales of its software platform through licensing arrangements, and cloud-based subscriptions and related services. It focuses on providing enterprise customers with software platform and services for deploying intelligence applications. Its platform, MicroStrategy 10, consolidates analytics and mobility in a single platform, available both as on-premise software and as a hosted service offering in MicroStrategy Cloud. Its enterprise platform combines business intelligence functionality with data discovery, mobile analytics and identity intelligence generated by digital credentials. MicroStrategy 10 consists of MicroStrategy Analytics, MicroStrategy Mobile and Usher. MicroStrategy Analytics offers solutions to organizations to analyze a range of data and distribute actionable business insight throughout an enterprise.
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Headquarters
1850 Towers Crescent Plz
Tysons Corner, VA 22182-6230
Invested 2/04/2021
@ 754.2245
*8/23/2024 post split
@ $75.42 / share.
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***DJ MicroStrategy Stock Rises After Big Earnings Beat. Thank Bitcoin's Rally. -- Barrons.com
6:05 AM ET 5/2/23 | Dow Jones
MicroStrategy, a business intelligence and software group that has increasingly traded as a proxy for Bitcoin -- which it holds en masse in its corporate treasury -- smashed expectations for first-quarter earnings. Investors can look to 2023's crypto rally.
MicroStrategy (ticker: MSTR), founded by high-profile Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor -- who is now its chairman -- reported earnings per share of $31.79 in the first three months of 2023 on revenue of $122 million. The group snapped a streak of eight consecutive quarters of losses on a per-share basis to firmly beat expectations for a loss of $1.28 a share, with revenue topping the $119 million estimate of analysts surveyed by FactSet.
Shares in MicroStrategy gained 2% in premarket trading on Tuesday. The stock already has gained almost 120% so far this year.
In its core business, software licenses revenue climbed 23% year over year to $36.2 million, with subscription services revenue up 46% on an annual basis to $18.8 million.
But for MicroStrategy, it's all about Bitcoin. The company has emerged, alongside the likes of Tesla (TSLA) and Block (SQ), as one of the few publicly listed companies to hold significant cryptocurrency holdings. MicroStrategy, in particular, has emerged as a notable "whale" in crypto markets, with its shares trading in step with Bitcoin prices.
Bitcoin's rally in 2023 -- the largest crypto has gained some 70% this year, dwarfing the 8.6% returns in the S&P 500 stock index -- has helped buoy MicroStrategy's financials at a time when the group continues to double down on digital assets.
MicroStrategy reported an impairment of $19 million on its digital asset holdings as of the end of March -- Bitcoin, it should be noted, remains well below its all-time high near $69,000 from late 2021. That's well down from a $198 million impairment charge in the prior quarter, and a rebound from the $918 million write-down in the second-quarter of 2022, in the heat of the bear market.
"The conviction in our Bitcoin strategy remains strong as the digital asset environment continues to mature," said Phong Le, MicroStrategy's president and CEO.
"In Q1, we strengthened our capital structure by reducing leverage by fully repaying our Bitcoin-backed loan," added Andrew Kang, chief financial officer.
The company continues to bet big on Bitcoin, increasing its holdings by 7,500 Bitcoins in the last quarter at a net aggregate purchase amount of $179 million or just shy of $24,000 per Bitcoin. The largest digital asset traded above $28,000 on Tuesday. As of the end of March, MicroStrategy held 140,000 Bitcoins for a total cost of $4.2 billion, or around $29,800 per Bitcoin, still slightly underwater in the current crypto market.