Strategy lifts STRC dividend to 11.5%

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy raised the annualized dividend on its widely-followed STRC ("Stretch") preferred series by 25 basis points, lifting the payout to 11.5%.

While STRC has performed as hoped — trading in a tight range close to $100 — the company's common stock, MSTR, has floundered alongside the price of bitcoin. MSTR closed February with its eighth consecutive monthly decline, falling 14% as bitcoin tumbled nearly 20%.

Strategy describes STRC as a short-duration, high-yield savings account. A perpetual preferred that pays monthly cash distributions, STRC's dividend rate is set each month to help the shares trade close to their $100 par value and to limit price volatility, and this latest increase is the seventh since STRC began trading in July 2025.

STRC closed at $100 on Friday but had traded somewhat below that level during February's brutal month for crypto, prompting the payout boost.

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