{"id":32472,"date":"2024-12-10T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02eeb7633000249f"},"modified":"2025-01-29T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:18:08","slug":"microstrategy-mstr-expected-to-be-added-to-nasdaq-100-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/microstrategy-mstr-expected-to-be-added-to-nasdaq-100-bloomberg","title":{"rendered":"MicroStrategy (MSTR) Expected To Be Added To Nasdaq 100: Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/screenshot-2024-09-30-at-11642pm.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Today, Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart announced that MicroStrategy (MSTR) is expected to enter into the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) later this month on December 23.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$MSTR<\/a> is likely to be added to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24QQQ&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$QQQ<\/a> on 12\/23 (w\/ announcement coming 12\/13). Moderna likely to get boot (symbolic). Below is best guess of adds\/drops via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSeyff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JSeyff<\/a>. Likely a 0.47% weight (40th biggest holding). There&#39;s $550b of ETFs tracking the index. S&amp;P 500 add next yr prob. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rmTavtvWQL\">pic.twitter.com\/rmTavtvWQL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1866595936983716168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicroStrategy will likely enter the Nasdaq 100 Index on Dec. 23, and we expect net buying of at least $2.1 billion in shares by ETFs to follow, equal to about 20% of daily volume,\u201d Seyffart <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1866587304934117728\">explained<\/a>. \u201cJoining the S&amp;P 500 will be tougher because of a lack of profit, though an accounting-rule change surrounding Bitcoin valuations could make MicroStrategy eligible in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Net buying of $2.1 billion would be an added boost to MSTR, which has already outperformed most major stocks and also bitcoin this year \u2014 up 450% year-to-date at the time of writing. MSTR, powered by its relentless bitcoin acquisition strategy, has seen its stock skyrocket to a new all time high this year for the first time since March 10, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>MSTR has already <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NikolausHoff\/status\/1866201551989051416\">acquired<\/a> over 170,000 bitcoin since announcing its plans to raise $42 billion to purchase more BTC in late October.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1_screenshot-2024-12-10-at-34721pm.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Balchunas stated that the official announcement of MSTR getting added to QQQ is expected to come this Friday, December 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain this is our best estimate of what will go down,\u201d Balchunas <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricBalchunas\/status\/1866597937217745244\">concluded<\/a>. \u201cWe don&#8217;t work at Nasdaq. FYI!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official announcement will likely come this Friday, says Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2511,"featured_media":441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[76,411,186,4284,340,93],"class_list":["post-32472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-bitcoin","tag-bloomberg","tag-microstrategy","tag-mstr","tag-nasdaq","tag-news"],"author_data":{"id":2511,"name":"Nik","nicename":"nik","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NIK_.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nasdaq-reportedly-looking-into-bitcoin-futures-despite-bear-market.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}