Microstrategy Publishes Q1 Impairment Loss on Bitcoin Holdings

With a total of 129,218 BTC, MicroStrategy, the world’s largest publicly traded corporate owner of bitcoin.

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Ritu Lavania

Microstrategy Publishes Q1 Impairment Loss On Bitcoin Holdings

The world’s largest corporate holder, BitcoinMicroStrategy Inc., reported total revenue of US$119.3 million in the First Quarter which was a 2.9% year-over-year decrease.

As of March 31, MicroStrategy’s 129,218 BTC under management had a carrying value of US$2.896 billion and a total market value of US$5.893 billion, indicating the accumulated impairment loss of US$1.071 billion.

This makes MicroStrategy, the world’s largest publicly traded corporate owner of bitcoin. MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin had an average cost of nearly US$30,700 and a market price of US$45,602.79.

Note that Bitcoin’s price has fallen roughly 17% from that time. However this implies that the current total market value would be much lower, at around US$4.878 billion.

On Wednesday, MicroStrategy (MSTR) closed down 6.15% on the Nasdaq, and fell 0.70% after hours, as of this writing.

MicroStrategy also announced the appointment of Andrew Kang as its new Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer.

Recently, in April, MicroStrategy had reportedly bought more 4,167 bitcoins for about $190.5 million in cash amounting to the total hodling of 129,218 bitcoins.



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Ritu Lavania is a content writer at The Crypto Times. She is also a literature enthusiast who loves beautiful clicks, flowery letters and has started to appreciate NFT Art. She loves dogs (and wishes to pet them), loves elephants (but can't afford them), and also likes spiders (and has a few of these in her window grills).