Ticker: MSTR 🧠💸 
Price: $394.66 ▼ -2.26% (as of Jul-29-2025 4:00 PM ET)
Insider Price: $90 👀
Difference: About... 300% 😬

🕵️♂️ Trigger: Major Insider Buying (but not exactly what you think)

Let’s take a peek at what insiders just did:

🛑 But plot twist!
They weren’t buying MSTR.
They were buying STRC — MicroStrategy’s preferred stock offering.
So… if you’re eyeing MSTR at nearly $400 a pop thinking insiders are piling in — hold up.

📉 What’s MSTR Anyway?

MicroStrategy d/b/a Strategy™ isn’t just about enterprise analytics anymore.

It’s the world’s first and largest Bitcoin Treasury Company.

Forget Excel. Think 💰+ ₿.

⚖️ Snapshot of the Situation

Institutional Ownership:
📉 50.16% — room for growth, but not quite full conviction yet.

🔍 For MicroStrategy ($MSTR)'s Institutional Ownership breakdown, see here. 

Short Interest:
🧨 9.81% — plenty of folks are betting this thing explodes (and not in the good way).

📊 Q1 2025 Highlights (Or... Lowlights)

⚙️ Software Biz (Yawn or Yay?)

• Revenue: $111.1M (⬇️ 3.6% YoY)

• Subscription Services: ⬆️ 61.6% YoY (nice!)

• Product Support: ⬇️ 16.2%

• Gross Profit: $77.1M, Gross Margin 69.4% (was 74% last year)

💣 The OUCH Section

• Operating Expenses: $6.0B (⬆️ 1,976% 😱)

• Digital Asset Unrealized Losses: $5.9B

• Net Loss: $4.2B
  That’s $16.49 per share — not ideal.

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into MicroStrategy ($MSTR)'s financials here.

💸 Wait, So What’s STRC?

Meet STRC:
✅ 10% Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock
✅ IPO price: $90
✅ Raised: $2.47B
✅ Used to buy: 21,021 more bitcoins (@ ~$117K each 😅)

And yes, STRC pays monthly dividends — rare for crypto-exposed securities.
Also: STRD came before it, same family.

🧠 Investors looking for income + crypto exposure (and high risk) might like it. Just know what you’re biting into.

🧮 Valuation of MSTR? Utterly Bonkers

💡 So Should You Buy?

🤷 If you're looking at MSTR, remember:
You’re buying a leveraged, dilutive bet on Bitcoin, dressed in enterprise software clothes.
Oh, and insiders are buying the preferred stock (STRC), not MSTR itself.

Want in on the action?
🎯 STRC may be worth a nibble — but maybe not a mouthful.
🍬 MSTR? You’re paying dessert prices for appetizer fundamentals.

🚨 TL;DR

• ✅ Insiders are buying… STRC, not MSTR.

• ❌ MSTR is not printing profit — it’s printing paper losses.

• ⚖️ Valuation: surreal.

• 📉 Business fundamentals: meh.

• 🪙 BTC exposure: massive.

• 🤹 If you like thrill rides and crypto adventures, STRC might intrigue.

• 📉 If you’re value-minded? Best to stay back for now.

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Invest at your own risk, always DYOR, hold the FOMO, and don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose. 

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