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2026-08-24 UTC
 
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Strategy Flips From $13 Billion Bitcoin Loss to $1.4 Billion Profit

The swing shows how directly the company's earnings now move with Bitcoin's price after its aggressive treasury strategy.

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Strategy reported a swing from a $13 billion Bitcoin-related loss to a $1.4 billion profit as Bitcoin's price rallied.

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Strategy's Stock Moves in Lockstep With Bitcoin. Strategy's share price has tracked Bitcoin's price swings closely since the company adopted its treasury strategy, explaining why its earnings flip between massive losses and profits.

Strategy's Stock Moves in Lockstep With Bitcoin

Strategy's share price has tracked Bitcoin's price swings closely since the company adopted its treasury strategy, explaining why its earnings flip between massive losses and profits.

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Strategy, the company built around holding Bitcoin on its balance sheet, reported a swing from a $13 billion loss to a $1.4 billion profit as Bitcoin's price rallied, according to Yahoo Finance. The reversal illustrates how tightly the firm's reported earnings now track Bitcoin's price moves, since accounting rules require it to mark its holdings to market each period. The rebound coincides with a separate forecast from Standard Chartered that Bitcoin will retest its all-time high. If Bitcoin continues higher, Strategy's paper gains would grow further; if it reverses, the company's earnings would swing back into loss territory just as quickly. What is unresolved is how much of this profit is realized versus mark-to-market, and whether Strategy plans further Bitcoin purchases at current prices. The company's earnings volatility remains a proxy for Bitcoin sentiment rather than a traditional operating result.
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What would change this view

If Bitcoin's price falls back toward the levels that produced the prior $13 billion loss, Strategy's profit would reverse under the same mark-to-market accounting.

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