Analysts Remain Bullish on Strategy’s Bitcoin Buying Plans

Fairness analysts from funding companies Benchmark and Bernstein reiterated their purchase rankings and lofty worth targets for Technique (MSTR), a day after the corporate stated that it had recorded a lack of $5.9 billion on its Bitcoin holdings in its first quarter of 2025. 

The analysts highlighted Technique’s continued technique to buy extra Bitcoin, which has develop into its core enterprise after the corporate pivoted from software program growth about 5 years in the past. 

“Whereas the variety of firms which have sought to duplicate Technique’s (MSTR) Bitcoin acquisition technique has continued to develop quickly, with greater than 70 public firms having adopted its lead by including Bitcoin to their stability sheets,” Mark Palmer, Benchmark senior analysis analyst–fintech and digital belongings wrote, “MSTR yesterday issued a reminder of the extent of its first-mover benefit and the way its capability to speed up its accumulation of Bitcoin has continued to extend as its platform has scaled.”

On Thursday, Technique reported a decline of $16.49 per widespread share within the first quarter of 2025—a results of Bitcoin’s worth plunge in the course of the span. The corporate has confronted the identical macroeconomic headwinds afflicting crypto and tech companies extra broadly, but in Thursday’s earnings name, it expanded on its initiative to accumulate extra Bitcoin by inventory and stuck earnings automobiles. 

Technique, which in 2020 pivoted from software program growth to concentrate on accumulating Bitcoin, now owns round 554,000 BTC, valued at roughly $53 billion based mostly on present costs. The corporate bought its Bitcoin at a median price of $68,459, as of April 28.

The Tysons Nook, Virginia-based firm is within the latter half of an initiative that it introduced final October to buy $42 billion Bitcoin by these strategies, and unveiled a brand new “42/42 Plan to accumulate a further $42 billion in Bitcoin by 2027, Palmer famous.

“It intends to boost a complete of $84 billion of capital ($42 billion in fairness and $42 billion in mounted earnings) by 2027 to fund Bitcoin purchases,” Palmer famous. “MSTR’s audacious $84 billion capital-raising goal contains the $42 billion focused by its preliminary plan, which is now 65% full with ~$14.7 billion remaining.”



Benchmark units a worth goal of $650 for Technique shares (MSTR), citing evaluation that features the projected worth of the corporate’s BTC holdings, a 15x a number of of its BTC greenback acquire, and the projected worth of its software program enterprise. 

Shares of Technique closed up 3.3% on Friday to commerce at $394.37, and have risen greater than 26% over the previous month, with a lot of these positive factors occurring in current weeks. MSTR has spiked greater than 36% year-to-date, and got here inside a greenback of matching its 2025 peak worth on Thursday forward of the earnings report.

Bitcoin was just lately buying and selling at about $96,700, roughly flat over the previous 24 hours. BTC has climbed 14% over the previous month amid an upturn in digital asset markets that recaptured floor misplaced from January by March. 

“MSTR now trades at 2.13x its internet asset worth, a stage that we view as engaging given the corporate’s demonstrated capability to create shareholder worth by its treasury operations,” Palmer wrote in repeating his purchase ranking.

Bernstein analysts set a $600 worth goal for Technique of their observe Friday. The agency spotlighted its addition of $10 billion in Bitcoin and scaling of its “capital program to 42:42 from 21:21.” 

“We proceed to love MSTR as probably the most scalable Bitcoin automobile tapping into giant institutional swimming pools unable to entry Bitcoin/spot ETFs,” the analysts wrote, noting that the corporate continued to commerce at a premium to its Bitcoin internet asset worth. 

“We proceed to worth Technique utilizing a sum-of-the-parts method, combining the enterprise worth of its software program enterprise and its Bitcoin holdings,” Bernstein wrote.

Edited by Andrew Hayward