How Strategy’s 0.52 Bitcoin Correlation Drives Risk Asset Surge: Report

Strategy’s (NASDAQ:MSTR) stock premium, with a 0.52 correlation and 1.77 beta to Bitcoin‘s (CRYPTO: BTC) price, positions it as a key leveraged proxy for risk asset investors, according to a VanEck report.

What Happened: The report highlights MSTR’s strategy of issuing equity and debt to amass Bitcoin, currently holding 2.7% of the cryptocurrency’s total supply, valued at $61 billion.

“MSTR’s common equity currently trades at a premium (+112%) to the combined value of its BTC NAV and Strategy’s underlying software business,” the report states, attributing this premium to expectations of future Bitcoin accumulation, regulatory advantages, and speculative trading.

This premium drives 96.5% of MSTR’s returns and …

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