STRATEGY SPENDS $635M BUYING BACK STRC AS PERPETUAL PREFERRED STOCK LAGS $100 PAR

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Strategy deployed $635 million repurchasing its STRC perpetual preferred stock, yet the instrument continues to trade at $97.34, a 2.66% discount to its $100 par value. By contrast, SATA, Strategy's second perpetual preferred with a higher dividend rate, holds par. The divergence shows that buyback volume alone does not anchor perpetual preferred to face value. Dividend yield is the operative mechanism. Bitcoin treasury companies building layered preferred capital structures will need to price dividend rates high enough to sustain par rather than rely on secondary market repurchases to do so.