Shares of MicroStrategy Inc. $(MSTR)$ fell 0.9% in premarket trading Thursday, after the business-analytics and bitcoin play said it planned to offer $500 million in convertible debt. The senior notes, due 2032, would be convertible to cash, MicroStrategy shares or a combination of both. The company, said it plans to use the proceeds from the sales of debt to buy more bitcoin (BTCUSD) and for general corporate purposes. The expected potential pricing of the debt was not provided. Separately, the company said it would fully redeem the $650 million in outstanding 0.75% convertible notes due 2025. While the MicroStrategy's primary business is software, its stock has moved more like bitcoin than its software peers since it adopted the cryptocurrency as its primary treasury reserve asset. The stock has run up 153.9% year to date, while bitcoin has rallied 61.3%, the SPDR S&P Software & Services ETF $(XSW)$ has slipped 1.3% and the S&P 500 has climbed 13.7%.
-Tomi Kilgore
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