Japanese public-listed firm Metaplanet announced its latest purchase of 124 Bitcoins for an investment value of 1.75 billion Japanese Yen on Tuesday. With this, the company’s Bitcoin holdings have now surged past 1,100 BTC with its stock price gaining a massive 15% today. Moreover, the firm has been rightly adopting MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin adoption blueprint for its recent BTC purchases.
Metaplanet Bitcoin Yield Shoots 186%
Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich has announced the acquisition of an additional 124.117 BTC for 1.75 billion yen. The latest BTC purchase happened at an average Bitcoin price of 14,099,600 yen per BTC. As of November 19, 2024, Metaplanet’s total Bitcoin holdings stand at 1,142.287 BTC, acquired for approximately 11.372 billion yen. Also, the average acquisition cost comes at 9,955,874 yen per BTC.
This strategic acquisition by Metaplanet has shot up the company’s quarterly-to-date (QTD) Bitcoin yield of 186.9% Interestingly, this development comes a day after MicroStrategy purchased 51,780 BTC for a staggering investment of over $4 billion.
Soon after the announcement, the Metaplanet stock price surged more than 14% shooting past 2,300 JPY levels in a massive bullish breakout past the critical resistance of 2,000 JPY. This sets the stage for the stock to rally an additional 30% to its 2024 high of 3,000 JPY.
On Monday, the Japanese firm announced its bond sale to buy more BTC. Similarly, MicroStrategy has been doing MSTR stock buyback to fund its BTC purchases, after a massive 400% rally in 2024 so far. The Japanese firm has also adopted Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin playbook thereby benefitting the company’s balance sheet as well as its shareholders.
MicroStrategy Creates Snowball Effect
Dylan Leclair, the Bitcoin acquisition strategist for Metaplanet, has highlighted a paradigm shift in corporate strategies. He stated that Bitcoin is the new “stock buyback” for Wall Street. “Wall Street has been put on notice,” LeClair stated.
He further stressed that the adoption of Bitcoin by major institutions happens through the long-anticipated game theory dynamics in the financial world.
Besides, Michael Saylor’s open sharing of the Bitcoin playbook created a snowball effect. Along with MicroStrategy, Marathon Digital and Semler Scientific announced their Bitcoin purchases and acquisition plans ahead. Not to forget, trillion-dollar tech giant Microsoft will hold a shareholders’ vote in December, regarding the decision to put Bitcoin on its balance sheet.
As of press time, the BTC price is trading 1.33% up at $91,763 with a market cap of $1.816 billion. A daily close above $91,900 will likely set the stage for a rally to $100K.
Bhushan Akolkar
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