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Preferred shares

Glossary · The treasury-company numbers Capitalist

Stock that stands ahead of the common in line to be paid. It carries a fixed dividend and gets its money before common shareholders see any. Strategy’s STRC, STRF, STRK and STRD are preferred shares: the cash they raise buys bitcoin, and the claim they create is what CEBE BPS subtracts.

The reserve set aside to pay preferred dividends without selling a coin is the number we watch: what is owed on the paper against what is held to pay it.

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