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Strategy's May 5 earnings call acknowledged Bitcoin sales as an option when advantageous to the company — a flexibility Saylor clarified days later would never make it a net seller of the asset.
Strategy said it could sell Bitcoin when advantageous — Saylor's follow-up set the floor at 'never a net seller'
The May 5 earnings call put a new lever on the table: Bitcoin sales are an option when accretive to Bitcoin per share, framed as a capital allocation tool rather than a policy reversal. Strategy posted a $12.54 billion first-quarter net loss. The company held 818,334 BTC at an average cost of $75,537 per coin, against roughly $1.5 billion in annual preferred stock obligations. In a subsequent interview, Saylor clarified that any sales would represent a small fraction of ongoing purchases — enough to remain a net accumulator every month — and that selling high-basis coins could unlock billions of dollars in embedded tax credits before proceeds are redeployed into new Bitcoin. The floor, he said, is that Strategy will "never be a net seller of Bitcoin," with purchases expected to outpace sales by a wide margin in every period going forward.
The flexibility adds a new dimension to Strategy's capital stack — Bitcoin sales are deployed only when they improve the per-share position, making them a precision tool rather than a retreat from accumulation.
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