Strategy bought another 24,869 Bitcoin last week. The purchase ran from May 11 through May 17, cost $2.01 billion in aggregate, and averaged $80,985 per BTC. The company disclosed the transaction in an 8-K filed May 18, and aggregate holdings now stand at 843,738 BTC.

That is a new high-water mark for the treasury. The all-in average purchase price across the full position is $75,700 per BTC, meaning the latest tranche came in above the portfolio average. Strategy paid up to keep buying.

The ATM Is Doing the Work

The filing is explicit: the Bitcoin purchases were made using proceeds from the sale of shares under the ATM. Every dollar of this acquisition came from equity issuance, not debt, not operating cash flow. That matters because it tells you the mechanism Strategy is currently leaning on and how much runway remains.

The 8-K also discloses the next stage of the capital stack. On March 23, 2026, Strategy announced a new $21.0 billion offering of $MSTR Stock, referred to in the filing as the $MSTR Increase. Sales under that facility cannot begin until capacity under the existing offering is substantially depleted. The company is running the current ATM to near-zero before activating the reload. That sequencing is deliberate and keeps the acquisition cadence uninterrupted.

What the Position Looks Like Now

The most recent SEC-disclosed fair market value for the Bitcoin treasury is approximately $64.04 billion as of April 26, 2026, per the May 6 10-Q. That snapshot predates the latest 24,869 BTC purchase, so the current position is larger than that figure reflects. The May 18 8-K does not provide an updated fair market value, only the BTC count and aggregate cost basis.

At 843,738 BTC and a total average cost of $75,700, the cost basis on the full position is roughly $63.87 billion, per the filing's own aggregate purchase price disclosure. The gap between that cost basis and the April 26 fair market value is narrow, which means the unrealized gain position is sensitive to Bitcoin price movement in either direction.

Filing Risk and Disclosure Cadence

$MSTR's Filing Risk Score sits at 100, and the Event Momentum reading matches it at the ceiling. Both reflect the density of capital markets filings the company generates, not a judgment about financial distress. Strategy files 8-Ks disclosing Bitcoin purchases on a near-weekly basis. This one fits that pattern exactly.

The elevated disclosure cadence is a feature of the strategy, not a warning sign in isolation. Every ATM sale triggers a disclosure obligation, and every Bitcoin purchase triggers another. The company's filing volume is a direct output of how aggressively it is running the capital recycling loop.

The Macro Backdrop Adds Friction

The crypto Fear and Greed index sat at 29, classified as fear, at the time of this filing. Bitcoin dominance was 58.2%, indicating the broader crypto tape is Bitcoin-led rather than altcoin-driven. Bitcoin's 30-day realized volatility was approximately 25.4% annualized, a calm reading relative to historical norms for the asset.

That combination means Strategy is buying into a fear-dominated sentiment environment with relatively low realized volatility. Whether that represents favorable entry conditions or a sign of softening demand is a question the next few weeks of price action will answer. What the filing confirms is that Strategy did not pause.

Price Context Frames the Equity Discount

$MSTR has recovered roughly 27% over the past three months but remains well below its 52-week high set in July 2025. The stock is above its 50-day moving average and below its 20-day and 200-day moving averages, a position that reflects the short-term recovery sitting inside a longer-term drawdown. Year-to-date the stock is up modestly.

The one-year picture is the harder read. $MSTR is down more than 60% from where it traded a year ago. The Bitcoin treasury has grown substantially over that period in BTC terms, but the equity has not kept pace with the accumulation story. That gap between BTC holdings growth and equity performance is the tension the market is currently pricing.

The next 8-K disclosing a Bitcoin purchase, and the pace at which the existing ATM capacity is consumed before the $21 billion $MSTR Increase activates, are the two concrete data points that will update this read.

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