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MicroStrategy Targeting $2B Perpetual Preferred Stock Offering: Benchmark

The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR).
Since MicroStrategy (MSTR) become a bitcoin treasury company in August 2020, it has used three primary instruments to acquire bitcoin (BTC): cash on hand, at-the-market (ATM) offerings and convertible bond offerings.
MicroStrategy’s next method of raising capital is to buy bitcoin through perpetual preferred stock, which was announced to the market on Jan. 3. MicroStrategy has announced a capital raise of $2 billion through one or multiple offerings, according to Benchmark.
Benchmark hosted a recent investor meeting with MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor at the ICR conference in Orlando to discuss the perpetual preferred stock offering.
A perpetual preferred stock typically has no fixed maturity date and continues indefinitely unless the company chooses to redeem it or put a maturity date on it. Shareholders of the stock receive fixed dividend payments but have no voting rights. The company may have the right to buy back the stock at a predetermined price after a specific date. In the case of a liquidation event, perpetual preferred stockholders are paid before common shareholders but after debt holders.
Perpetual stock is an attractive instrument due to a lack of a set maturity date, unlike MSTR’s convertible bonds, where some are already in the money and eligible for conversion. Convertible bonds tend to have a tenor of approximately four to eight years, Saylor said at the conference.
According to the note, Saylor said that the perpetual preferreds were advantageous due to their extended duration. The instrument works as an embedded, indefinite call option in addition to a lump-sum principal payment. The company would benefit as it would be less fragile due to the extended duration of the capital structure.
According to Benchmark, the perpetual preferred stock could achieve a mid-single-digit yield, with low volatility and no-options market, the opposite to a convertible bond.
Perpetual preferreds would be attractive to big institutions like pension funds and banks, as they would receive a stable and fixed dividend payment.
The terms of the perpetual preferred stock have yet to be announced. We do know this is coming in Q1, and the terms of the offering should include dividend payments, convertibility to class A common stock, and provision of redemption of shares according to the MicroStrategy press release on Jan. 3.
Benchmark maintains its buy rating on MSTR with a price target of $650.
As of Monday, MicroStrategy purchased a further 2,530 BTC taking total holdings to 450,000 BTC.
Next week, MicroStrategy’s Special Meeting for Shareholders will take place on Jan. 21. Investors will vote on increasing the authorized class A common stock and preferred stock. MSTR’s Q4 earnings call is set for Feb. 4.
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Coinbase Outpaces S&P 500 With 43% June Rise as Stablecoin Narrative Grows: CNBC

Shares of Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) rose 43% this month, making the firm the top performer in the S&P 500 since it joined the index at the end of last month.
June’s run is already the stock’s best since November and caps three straight monthly gains. Coinbase’s shares reached their highest level since their public debut.
COIN hit a $382 high this week before enduring a slight correction, ending the week at $353 and seeing a slight 0.7% drop in after-hours trading to $351.
The wider S&P 500 index rose roughly 5% in June as geopolitical tensions eased.
Washington’s progress on the GENIUS Act, Congress’s first rulebook for dollar-pegged stablecoins, helped shift investor focus from trading fees to stablecoin revenue.
The bill brightened the outlook for Circle, whose shares hit a record high and saw its market cap near that of Coinbase this week.
Coinbase keeps all yield on USDC balances held on its platform and nearly half of other USDC income, equal to about 99 percent of Circle’s revenue, giving shareholders indirect exposure at no added cost, CNBC reported Friday, citing analysts including Citizens’ head of financial technology research Devin Ryan.
Trading, however, remains subdued. Average daily volume on Coinbase has drifted lower since April.
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Robinhood Launches Micro Bitcoin, Solana and XRP Futures Contracts

Robinhood (HOOD) has introduced micro futures on bitcoin (BTC), solana (SOL) and XRP in the United States., expanding its existing crypto futures offering for its nearly 26 million funded accounts.
Micro contracts need far less collateral than full-size futures, letting traders take directional positions while committing a smaller slice of capital.
The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on a cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.
The launch rounds out a futures suite that began with BTC and ETH in January. It also comes weeks after the firm closed its $200 million purchase of Bitstamp and finalized a $179 million deal for Canada’s WonderFi.
Robinhood’s data shows that crypto notional volumes have exploded upward over time, reaching $11.7 billion in May. The figure marks a 36% rise month-over-month, and a 65% growth year-over-year.
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Why is XRP Up Today? Trio of Catalysts Sees Token Outperform Wider Crypto Market

XRP climbed 5.5% to $2.19 in the last 24 hours after a trio of catalysts converged to help the cryptocurrency outperform the wider cryptocurrency market.
One of the catalysts was launch of XRP micro futures on Robinhood. The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on the cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.
Regulatory fog also thinned. On Friday, Ripple withdrew its cross-appeal in its long-running U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit. The SEC sued Ripple back in 2020 over its XRP sales, alleging these violated securities laws. The SEC is expected to drop its own appeal, leaving last year’s ruling, ordering Ripple to pay a $125 million civil penalty to the SEC, intact. The move could lift a lid that had kept some investors on the sidelines.
On-chain data rounded out the bullish setup. The XRP Ledger logged over a 1.1 million active addresses over the past week according to crypto analyst Ali Martinez, who cited Glassnode data.
XRP’s rise saw it outperform the wider crypto market, with the broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index rising 1.7% in the last 24 hours.
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