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Strategy’s Q4 2025 report shows a record multi‑billion loss on its Bitcoin bet, even as the company doubled down on BTC and shored up cash to ride out years of volatility. Bitcoin Bet Sends Earnings Deep Into the Red Bitcoin‑focused treasury company Strategy Inc has reported one of the largest quarterly losses ever seen by a U.S. public firm, underscoring both the scale of its crypto exposure and its determination to keep buying BTC through deep drawdowns. MSTR Stock Chart Post-Q4 Collapse MSTR shares cratered 17% in after-hours trading following the earnings release, hitting multi-month lows as Bitcoin’s year-end slide amplified the firm’s unrealized losses. The stock has shed over 30% from its late-2025 peak, trading at levels not seen since mid-2025 amid debt and dilution fears, yet remains up massively year-over-year on BTC’s long-term grind higher. In its fourth-quarter 2025 results, Strategy disclosed a net loss of roughly 12.4–12.6 billion USD, as Bitcoin slid more than 20% from its October peak to under 88,500 USD by year-end. The bulk of that hit came from unrealized losses on the company’s massive Bitcoin stack, which flipped back into the red as prices retreated below the firm’s elevated cost basis. As of Feb 1, 2026, Strategy held 713,502 BTC on its balance sheet, cementing its position as the largest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world. Those coins were acquired for a total of about 54.26 billion USD, implying an average purchase price of roughly 76,052 USD per BTC. With Bitcoin recently trading only slightly above that level, the firm’s treasury has oscillated around breakeven, generating enormous quarter-to-quarter swings in reported earnings as BTC whipsaws. War Chest Strategy: 713K BTC and a $2.25B Cash Buffer Instead of retrenching, Strategy spent 2025 aggressively tapping capital markets to expand its Bitcoin war chest. The company…

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