The Dallas-based public asset manager accumulated the bitcoin (BTC) between Aug. 10 and Aug. 14 at an average cost of roughly $63,231 per coin, including fees and expenses. With bitcoin recently changing hands near $62,895, the company’s entire stash was valued at roughly $1.273 billion.
CEO and Chairman Matt Cole disclosed the purchase on Aug. 17 on X and pointed investors toward the company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filing for further details. The deal keeps Strive firmly among the largest public-company bitcoin holders, ranking roughly seventh based on reported corporate treasuries.
Strive Keeps Its Bitcoin Machine Running
The latest buy barely moves the needle against Strive’s existing stack, but it extends a playbook centered on relentlessly adding bitcoin. Instead of firing its capital at one price, the company has accumulated bitcoin across multiple transactions throughout 2026.
Strive was co-founded by the entrepreneur and politician Vivek Ramaswamy and is now run operationally by Cole. Its bitcoin strategy shifted into higher gear following an all-stock merger with Semler Scientific, which dropped a sizable bitcoin position directly onto Strive’s balance sheet.
The company has also tapped at-the-market (ATM) stock sales and its own preferred shares to finance additional bitcoin acquisitions. At-the-market programs let a public company feed shares gradually into the open market rather than unloading a massive stock offering all at once.
That setup gives Strive another capital pipeline without piling on traditional senior debt, though existing common shareholders can pay through dilution as the share count expands. For investors, the real test is whether every financing round ultimately puts more bitcoin behind each share.
Cash Reserves Give Strive More Ammunition
Strive said it held roughly $154.8 million in cash and cash equivalents as of Aug. 14, virtually unchanged from $154.9 million one week earlier. It also owned 505,000 shares of Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, ticker STRC, carrying a reported fair value of roughly $47.9 million.
The company calls its balance sheet debt-free while deploying preferred shares, including its SATA security, to bankroll bitcoin accumulation. Preferred stock typically pays investors a stated dividend and sits ahead of common shares for dividend payments, but it lacks the same repayment claim carried by conventional debt.
Strive’s underlying business remains asset management, while bitcoin functions as its long-term treasury reserve. That separates the company from a bitcoin miner earning revenue through computing infrastructure, or an ordinary corporation that occasionally parks excess cash in bitcoin.
ASST Stock Feels Bitcoin and Dilution Pressure
Strive shares, trading on Nasdaq under ASST, remain tightly wired to bitcoin prices and the company’s capital-raising machine. The stock finished at $12.32 on Aug. 14, down roughly 1.3% from $12.48 on Aug. 7, even as the company kept buying.
During the previous two weeks, ASST climbed from roughly $11.80 on Aug. 3 into the low-$12 range before giving some ground back. Shares were broadly flat to slightly negative over the past month, yet remained down roughly 25% to 30% over three months after trading in the high teens during May. As of today, however, on Aug. 17, ASST is up more than 4% at the start of Wall Street’s open.
That volatility shows investors increasingly price Strive as a leveraged bitcoin proxy rather than a traditional asset manager. Higher bitcoin prices or financing that boosts bitcoin per share can lift ASST, while falling bitcoin prices or dilution without matching treasury growth can punish it.
Strive’s coming filings will reveal whether the company keeps stacking bitcoin, what financing machinery funds those buys and whether bitcoin per share actually improves. Investors will also track bitcoin’s price, additional preferred-stock issuance and Strive’s cash reserves as it tries to build one of the market’s biggest public bitcoin treasuries.
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