Strategy Doubles Its Preferred Buyback Authorization to $2 Billion After a $176 Million Week of STRC Repurchases

The company spent $176.3 million buying STRC below par and bought no bitcoin at all, as defending the preferred takes priority over accumulation.

Saylor doubles his preferred buyback firepower

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Posted September 9, 2026 at 6:22 am EST.

Strategy‘s board approved doubling the aggregate authorization under its Digital Credit Securities Repurchase Program from $1 billion to $2 billion, the company disclosed in an 8-K filed Tuesday. As of Sept. 7, $1.19 billion remained available under the expanded program.

The company bought back 1,810,885 shares of STRC, its variable rate perpetual preferred stock, for $176.3 million between Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. That works out to roughly $97 per share, below the $100 par value the instrument is engineered to hold. No STRF, STRK, STRD, or MSTR shares were repurchased during the week. Strategy funded the buybacks entirely from USD cash.

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Strategy sold no shares under its at-the-market program and neither purchased nor sold bitcoin during the period, leaving holdings flat at 845,050 BTC bought for $63.73 billion, an average of $75,412 per coin.

Cash reserves stood at $5.10 billion in the USD Reserve, which backs preferred dividends and debt interest, plus $1.44 billion of general purpose USD cash.

The program traces to the financing overhaul Strategy announced on June 29, which authorized up to $1.25 billion in bitcoin sales alongside separate $1 billion buyback authorizations for preferred and common stock. The full $1 billion remains untouched on the MSTR side. The program follows struggles STRC has faced in recent months.

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