Twelve per cent until a hundred dollars
Strategy set its own test for cutting the rate and did not say what passing it looks like. On Oct 1 the shares closed fifty cents short. Who decides when that is close enough?
The Quote
Increased the dividend rate to 12.00% to support STRC trading near its $100 per share stated amount, and will maintain the 12.00% rate until STRC demonstrates sustained, healthy trading near $100 per share.
Strategy, second-quarter results, Exhibit 99.1 to the Form 8-K of Jul 30, 2026, Jul 30, 2026Where it stands
- Not yet due The 12.00% rate holds until STRC trades near $100. Open
- Not yet due The $0.50 due Nov 15 is paid only if the amendments pass. Amendments passed Oct 28 on the preliminary count; daily dividends from Nov 1 once the certificate is filed
What would settle it
On paper, monthly. Strategy posts the rate at strategy.com/strc and files an 8-K recording it, so the number is never in doubt and never anyone else's reading. What is in doubt is the other half of the sentence. The company wrote its own test, sustained and healthy trading near $100, and left every word of it undefined. It alone says when the test has been passed. Two numbers are worth holding next to that. In the week to Jul 26, before the rate went up, Strategy bought back 288,930 of these shares at an average of $86.53. On Sep 30 they closed at $99.35, after four sessions between $98.31 and $99.56. The promise is being kept at the moment it gets expensive to keep, which is the only moment a promise like this is worth reading. Set against that, the disclaimer on the company's own card says the rate may be significantly lower and the dividend is not guaranteed. An undertaking and a reservation, published the same week, both in the company's words. The nearer date is the special meeting on Oct 28, where shareholders vote on paying these dividends daily instead of twice a month. The board has already declared the $0.50 due on Nov 15, but it is payable only if that vote passes and the new certificate is filed in time. A declared dividend with a condition attached settles itself in public, eighteen days from now.
The December rate is set
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days to go, on 16 November 2026
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Michael Saylor
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Announced the October rate on X two minutes after midnight. The sentence this page turns on is the company's, written in a results release, not his.
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- 2026-11-09 Filing The 8-K for Nov 2 to 8: 1,887,464 STRC shares bought back for $188.3 million, about $99.76 each, less than the record $208.2 million of the week before. This time the money came straight from selling common stock: 2,051,348 MSTR shares for $283.8 million net, of which $188.3 million paid for the buybacks, $81.9 million bought 1,036 bitcoin and $13.6 million went to USD Cash, which ended the week at $146.2 million. The dollar reserve paid $21.1 million of preferred dividends and stands at $4.77 billion. $560.3 million is left under the buyback limit. Nothing in the filing mentions the rate. Saylor posted the same numbers at 13:04 UTC. Source
- 2026-11-06 Data STRC closed at $99.84 on Friday. The week's five closes ran from $99.28 to $99.98, none of them at $100. Source
- 2026-11-05 Statement Saylor on X: "$STRC closed at $99.56, just 44 cents below par." He does not mention the rate. Source
- 2026-11-05 Data STRC closed at $99.56 on Thursday, the day the S&P 500 fell 4.4 percent, after $99.93 on Tuesday and $99.98 on Wednesday. Wednesday's high was $100.00, the stated amount, and Thursday's low $99.15. Saylor posted the same close that evening, "just 44 cents below par", and Nasdaq's record agrees. The company has still not said how many sessions near $100 its July test needs. Source
- 2026-11-02 Data STRC closed at $99.28 on Monday. Its high for the day was $99.94 and its low $99.17. Source
- 2026-11-02 Filing The quarterly report, filed the same Monday, puts the clause the Oct 29 results release left out back in the company's words: management "does not intend to recommend to our board of directors a change from the current 12.00% per annum dividend rate until STRC Stock demonstrates sustained trading at or near its $100 stated amount." So the July test still stands as policy. The same report says the company "will not necessarily increase" the rate solely because STRC trades below $100, and that after buybacks to Oct 25 about 83.9 million STRC shares were left, $8.39 billion at the stated amount, against 90.96 million on Sep 30. Source
- 2026-11-02 Filing The 8-K for Oct 26 to Nov 1: 2,092,035 STRC shares bought back for $208.2 million, about $99.52 each, the largest week on file again by both counts. The money came from USD Cash, as the week before. This time the cash was topped up by selling common stock: 1,178,552 MSTR shares for $164.0 million, of which $98.5 million went to USD Cash and $65.5 million bought 811 bitcoin. USD Cash ended the week at $132.7 million, down from $242.4 million. The dollar reserve paid $43.4 million of preferred dividends in the week and stands at $4.79 billion. $748.6 million is left under the buyback limit. Nothing in the filing mentions the rate. Source
- 2026-10-30 Data STRC closed at $99.13 on Friday, after $99.99 the day before. Its low for the day was $98.12. Source
- 2026-10-29 Note The checkpoint moves to Nov 16. November's rate was set in the 8-K of Oct 15, so December's is expected around the middle of November. The condition on November's dividends is met on the preliminary count. What stays open is the July sentence: 12 percent until trading near $100 is "sustained" and "healthy", words the company has still not defined.
- 2026-10-29 Data STRC closed at $99.99, the top of its range for the day and a cent short of $100. Source
- 2026-10-29 Filing A second 8-K the same day records that the new certificates of designations were filed in Delaware on Oct 29. STRC's takes effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Nov 1 and the other three on Jan 1, 2027. The filing says the change does not alter any dividend rate or "increase or decrease the total amount of regular dividends". Both conditions on November's daily dividends, the vote and a certificate filed in time, are now met. Source
- 2026-10-29 Filing Strategy's third-quarter results list "Returned STRC to health" first among its credit highlights, done by buying back $2.04 billion of the shares and growing its dollar assets to $5.07 billion. Healthy is one of the two words in the July test. The rate stays at 12 percent all the same, and the policy line has been shortened: the company "has maintained the dividend rate at 12.00% to support STRC trading near its $100 per share stated amount". The July clause about keeping it there until trading is "sustained, healthy" does not appear in this release. This year it has bought back 20,980,508 shares for about $2.04 billion, an average of $97.39, and it says it will keep buying "while STRC trades below $100 per share". It also says it sold about $431.8 million of bitcoin this year to pay part of its preferred dividends and the buybacks. Nothing in the release says what December's rate will be. Source
- 2026-10-28 Data STRC closed at $99.92 on the day of the vote, the nearest to $100 since this question opened, after $99.49 the day before. The high for the day was $99.93. Source
- 2026-10-28 Filing The special meeting voted the daily dividends through. Strategy's 8-K the same day says that on preliminary results the common shareholders approved new certificates of designations for all four preferred stocks. STRC moves to a dividend every calendar day from Nov 1, and the other three from Jan 1, 2027, once the certificates are filed and take effect. Weekend days roll into the Friday: a buyer on a Friday gets none of that weekend's three dividends, and a seller on a Friday keeps all three. The filing says nothing about the rate or about the $100 test. Source
- 2026-10-26 Filing The 8-K for Oct 19 to 25: 2,068,459 STRC shares bought back for $204.9 million, about $99.06 each. It is the largest week on file by both counts, at a slightly lower average than the week before. This time the filing says where the money came from: $204.9 million of the company's USD Cash, which ended the week at $242.4 million, with no shares sold under the at-the-market programme and no bitcoin bought or sold. $956.8 million is left of the $3.0 billion limit, so about $2.04 billion has been spent since Jul 20. Saylor posted the $205 million the same morning. The special meeting on daily dividends is on Oct 28. Source
- 2026-10-20 Filing The 8-K for Oct 12 to 18: 1,938,780 STRC shares bought back for $193.1 million, about $99.60 each, a second week at the same size and the highest average price yet. The board raised the buyback limit from $2.0 billion to $3.0 billion, with $1.16 billion left after the increase. That puts the spending since July 20 at about $1.84 billion. Source
- 2026-10-19 Filing Strategy's 8-K of Oct 15 sets the STRC rate for November at 12 percent and declares a dividend for every day of the month, payable from Nov 2, if shareholders approve daily dividends at the Oct 28 meeting. It repeats that management will recommend keeping the rate at 12 percent "until STRC has demonstrated sustained, healthy trading near $100 per share". Source
- 2026-10-13 Filing The weekly filing bears out the post. Between Oct 5 and Oct 11 the company bought back 1,932,145 STRC shares for $192.4 million, about $99.58 each. It is the largest week on file by both counts, at the highest price paid. $354.8 million remains of the $2.0 billion programme, so about $1.65 billion has been spent since Jul 20. STRC closed at $99.90 on Tuesday. Source
- 2026-10-12 Data The weekly filings run the other way. The programme was announced on Jun 29 and nothing was bought for three weeks, while the shares closed between $83.67 and $88.58. The first week of buying, Jul 20 to 26, is the smallest: 288,930 shares at $86.53. From late August, at $97 to $99, the company bought 1.4 to 1.8 million shares a week. The latest week on file, at an average of $99.39, is 1,773,802 shares, the second largest of the eleven. Trading does not explain it: between 5 and 8 million shares changed hands in almost every week, so the company took about one share in eighteen at $86 and about one in five near $99. Every purchase is disclosed within a week, and the filings show them paid for as cash was raised from sales of common stock and bitcoin, which may be the reason. The company has not given one. Source
- 2026-10-12 Filing The July results release carries a second sentence about how the buying would be paced: "while STRC trades below $100 per share the Company intends to be a regular and disciplined purchaser, buying more at deeper discounts and tapering as STRC approaches par." Source
- 2026-10-12 Statement Saylor on X: "Strategy has acquired 250 $BTC and repurchased $192M of $STRC. As of 10/11/26, we hold 848,250 BTC and $5.5B of USD Assets." Checked at source. If the weekly filing bears it out, $192 million is the largest week of buying so far, with the shares above $99. The SEC was closed for the holiday and the filing was not on its system by Monday evening. Source
- 2026-10-12 Data STRC closed at $99.88, after $99.65 on Friday. It is the nearest to $100 since this question opened. Source
- 2026-10-08 Statement Saylor on X: "Digital Credit is raising the bar for income investors. $STRC". It was his third post about STRC in a day. Checked at source. Source
- 2026-10-07 Data STRC closed at $99.43. Strategy's common stock closed at $153.37, down from $164.55 the day before. Source
- 2026-10-06 Data STRC closed at $99.47. Source
- 2026-10-05 Filing The proxy statement for the Oct 28 meeting was filed and mailed. The company also filed the questions and answers it posted on its own website, which give the reason for paying dividends daily in its words: "to support price stability, including for STRC to trade closer to its $100 target price". Source
- 2026-10-05 Statement Saylor on X, the morning the filing went in: "Last week, we acquired 334 $BTC and repurchased $176M of $STRC." Checked at source. Source
- 2026-10-05 Filing Strategy's weekly 8-K records that it bought back 1,773,802 STRC shares between Sep 28 and Oct 4 for $176.3 million, which works out at about $99.39 a share. $154.1 million of that came from its cash and $22.2 million from interest earned on its cash. $547.2 million remains under the programme. For scale, the July buyback already on this page was 288,930 shares for about $25 million at $86.53. In the same week the company sold $15.7 million of its common stock and bought 334 bitcoin. Source
- 2026-10-05 Data STRC closed at $99.48. Source
- 2026-10-02 Statement Saylor on X, with a video: "Still living comfortably. $STRC". His third post about the stock in two days. Checked at source. Source
- 2026-10-02 Data STRC closed the week at $99.41. Saylor posted about the stock twice during the day. Source
- 2026-10-01 Statement Saylor posted the same number two minutes after midnight UTC, the morning the filing went in. "Stretch Dividend Rate maintained at 12.00% for October 2026." Checked at source. Source
- 2026-10-01 Filing Strategy filed an 8-K recording that the rate stays at 12.00% for the semi-monthly periods beginning on or after Oct 16, and that the board declared $0.50 a share for the period ending Oct 31 and another $0.50 for the period ending Nov 15. The second one carries a condition. It is payable unless the Daily Dividend Amendments fail at the special meeting or the new certificate of designations is not filed in time. Source
- 2026-10-01 Note The disclaimer on the company's own card, filed with those posts, reads the other way from the July sentence. It says the rate is subject to monthly adjustment and may be significantly lower, and that the dividend is not guaranteed. Both are the company's words. One is an undertaking and the other is a reservation, and they are being published in the same week. Source
- 2026-10-01 Filing Strategy filed four of its own and Saylor's X posts with the SEC as soliciting material for the Oct 28 meeting, along with a transcript of a podcast Saylor had reposted. The proposal is to pay these dividends daily rather than twice a month, starting with STRC in November and the rest of the preferred stock in January 2027. The transcript carries Jeff Walton saying he would not be surprised to see Strike trade up to $200. That is a guest on someone else's podcast, not the company, and the only reason it is now in a federal filing is that the Executive Chairman pressed repost during a solicitation. Source
- 2026-10-01 Data STRC closed at $99.50, fifty cents under the stated amount. The last five closes sit between $98.54 and $99.56. Source
- 2026-09-30 Data STRC closed at $99.35, after four sessions between $98.31 and $99.56. The stated amount the sentence names is $100. Source
- 2026-09-01 Filing The same undertaking was repeated in the 8-K covering the August rate, so it is the standing position and not a line left in one press release. Source
- 2026-07-30 Filing The sentence arrives in the second-quarter results. The same release records that between Jul 20 and Jul 26 the company bought back 288,930 STRC shares for about $25.00 million, an average of $86.53 a share. Source
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