{"id":8789,"date":"2026-01-02T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:12:03","slug":"michael-saylors-strategy-flirts-with-threshold-at-which-company-is-worth-less-than-its-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8789","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor\u2019s Strategy flirts with threshold at which company is worth less than its Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Stock in Michael Saylor\u2019s Bitcoin treasury company Strategy was up 1.22% in early trading today, giving the company a brief period of relief. The stock has declined 66% since its high last July, and this morning its \u201cmNAV\u201d\u2014a technical gauge of whether the company is worth more or less than the Bitcoin it holds\u2014was at 1.02.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If that gauge falls below 1, then technically the company is worth less than the Bitcoin it owns. At that point, the stock would be sold off by many investors because there is no point in owning a stock whose value is based on Bitcoin if the stock is worth less than the Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The stock has been sitting above this danger zone since November.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Already, the market cap of the company is worth less than its Bitcoin. Its market cap was $47 billion today; the Bitcoin held by the company is worth just under $60 billion. That on its own is a perilous position. But if the company\u2019s mNAV (\u201cmarket-to-net asset value\u201d) falls below 1 then the stock potentially enters a new world of pain. mNAV is a measure of the company\u2019s total market cap plus its debt, minus its cash, divided by its total Bitcoin reserve. If that value is worth less than 1 then the case for owning Strategy stock becomes harder to argue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fortune<\/em> contacted the company for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Saylor, as usual, has been tweeting bullishly about MSTR shares, including this chart showing that \u201copen interest\u201d (investor positions that have not been closed out) are the equivalent of 87% of the company\u2019s market value. The implication is that the stock is highly traded (although many of those positions are undoubtedly short bets against the company). He also posted an AI-generated picture of him taming a polar bear.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<div class=\"block w-full\"><img data-cy=\"article-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"864\" height=\"864\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"transition-opacity duration-300 lazyload wp-image-4390483 not-prose w-full\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 864 864'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR4nGNgYAAAAAMAASsJTYQAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 50vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, (max-width: 1024px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 40vw, 33vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=128&amp;q=100 128w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=256&amp;q=100 256w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=320&amp;q=100 320w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=384&amp;q=100 384w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=480&amp;q=100 480w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=576&amp;q=100 576w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=768&amp;q=100 768w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=1024&amp;q=100 1024w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=1280&amp;q=100 1280w, https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100 1440w\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/G9bA0rjXkAELYxE-copy.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Below the level of mNAV at 1 lies another dangerous threshold for Strategy: the average price at which Strategy has historically accumulated Bitcoin. Over the years, that price was about $74,000 per coin. Currently, Bitcoin trades at $89.6K. If the price were to fall below $74K it would imply that Strategy\u2019s Bitcoin stash was worth less than what Saylor has paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy fans would argue that might be a time to buy\u2014if the stock was worth less than its Bitcoin then the price per share might rise to meet the price of Bitcoin; it might rise even more if Bitcoin resumed its march higher.<\/p>\n<p>But that, again, would be a sore test for traders who are not true believers. Why hold a stock that is worth less than the underlying asset it represents?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"not-prose empty:contents [:has(*[data-empty=true])]:hidden\">\n<div class=\"typography-level-4 mt-4 font-graphik-compact [&amp;_*_a]:hover:underline\" data-cy=\"subscriptionPlea\"><span class=\"description-parser contents\"><strong>Join us at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit <\/strong>May 19\u201320, 2026, in Atlanta. 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Register now.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Michael #Saylors #Strategy #flirts #threshold #company #worth #Bitcoin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock in Michael Saylor\u2019s Bitc&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[95,596,6942,2143,6940,6941,91,127,1058,5514,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}