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Is MicroStrategy’s Massive Bitcoin Bet Genius or Gambling?
Is MicroStrategy’s Massive Bitcoin Bet Genius or Gambling?
April 16, 2024
In the high-stakes world of investing, there’s always been a fine line between boldness and recklessness. MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor is putting that notion to the ultimate test through his company’s stratospheric bet on bitcoin.
The enterprise software maker has executed one of the most audacious corporate pivots in recent memory. Since 2020, MicroStrategy has relentlessly poured its cash flow and debt proceeds into accumulating bitcoin – purchasing a staggering $3.8 billion worth at an average price around $30,000 per coin.
By early 2023, MicroStrategy’s bitcoin haul had swelled to over 132,000 coins valued at $4.1 billion. This unprecedented embrace of crypto by a public company has paid off massively so far as bitcoin’s price has surged over $60,000.
This bold bet has essentially transformed the company’s investing merits. Gauging MicroStrategy’s future trajectory now hinges more on bitcoin price forecasts than evaluating its software business fundamentals.
That makes investor Kerry Grinkmeyer earnings modelings particularly fascinating. Based on MicroStrategy’s guided earnings growth, Grinkmeyer projects the stock could surge another 82% to around $2,750 by 2025 if bitcoin simply holds current levels. And if bitcoin continues compounding at 30% annually, MicroStrategy’s shares could potentially top $5,000 within three years.
Those kinds of seismic gains would make Saylor look like an absolute visionary for going all-in on bitcoin before most corporations took crypto seriously. MicroStrategy would demonstrate how smaller, more agile players can prosper by taking intelligent blind risks that hamstrung mega-funds and institutions would never dare attempt.
However, Grinkmeyer also acknowledges the massive downside risk should bitcoin’s dominance crumble or regulatory hammer blows undermine its ascent. Saylor would then go down as an overambitious gambler who recklessly compromised a healthy business for a manic crypto obsession.
With Fibonacci analysis suggesting MicroStrategy’s frothy rally could cool off considerably in coming months, Grinkmeyer is waiting patiently for a more attractive entry point. At that level, the asymmetric upside looks compelling relative to the downside risk.
Grinkmeyer is extending an open invitation for investors to join his “tribe” and collectively weigh in. Is Saylor’s bitcoin binge a stroke of genius that warrants following? Or a misguided mania destined for a disastrous reckoning? The implications of MicroStrategy’s unprecedented crypto wager are substantial – for the company, crypto’s mainstream adoption, and how corporations invest their cash going forward.
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