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Strive Hikes Preferred Share Dividend Rate as Bitcoin Treasury Companies Continue to Plunge

Bitcoin has tumbled below $88,000 on Monday, helping to send Strive (ASST) common stock lower by 7% to $0.79

Dec 15, 2025, 3:36 p.m.
Strive (TradingView)
Strive (TradingView)

What to know:

  • Strive raised the dividend rate by 25 basis points on its SATA Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to 12.25%.
  • SATA continues to trade below the par value of $100, currently at $91.
  • Bitcoin treasury company shares are sharply lower Monday at bitcoin falls below $87,000.

It's another in what's been a long run of difficult days for bitcoin treasury companies (BTCTCs) as the price of bitcoin tumbles below $87,000 in morning U.S. action on Monday.

Among those headed lower is Strive (ASST), now down 9% to a record low of $0.78. At the height of the BTCTC mania in the spring, Strive at one point traded above $13.

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Attempting to mirror Michael Saylor's Strategy, Strive last month issued a perpetual preferred series of stock (SATA), raising $160 million, with a dividend rate of 12%. The company's aim is to keep SATA trading in a tight range near $100. With SATA having dipped and held in the $90 area, Strive today announced a hike in the dividend rate to 12.25%.


Strive currently holds 7,525 bitcoin and the current share price indicates a mNAV (the stock valuation dividend by the value of the company's bitcoin holdings) of just 1.09.

A check of other BTCTCs Monday finds losses across the board, with Strategy (MSTR) itself down 6.6%. KindlyMD (NAKA), XXI (XXI), American Bitcoin (ABTC) and ProCap (BRR) are lower by 5%-10%.

Semler Scientific (SMLR), which has agreed to merge with Strive (shareholder vote is in January), is lower by 8%.

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