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🗓️ 25 November 2025
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When your entire corporate game plan and the investor base you’ve cultivated revolves around the rising price of bitcoin, a 35% tumble in a month is cause for alarm.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, November 25th. Today on Forbes, will Bitcoin's dive |
| 0:08.7 | threaten Michael Saylor's strategy? Last week, Bitcoin fell to $82,000, down 35% from its $12,080 |
| 0:19.8 | October peak. |
| 0:21.9 | For most big NASDAQ listed companies, that drop is background noise. |
| 0:26.8 | For Michael Saylor's strategy, the stock market's biggest bull and largest corporate holder |
| 0:31.5 | of Bitcoin, it immediately raises the question of what comes next. |
| 0:36.7 | For almost two years, strategy traded far above |
| 0:39.6 | the value of its Bitcoin holdings, at times 190% higher, turning its stock into a turbocharged |
| 0:46.6 | Bitcoin bet for most institutional investors. Sailor's transformation of his Tyson's Virginia-based |
| 0:53.2 | data mining software company into a masterwork |
| 0:56.1 | in using traditional corporate finance to harness Bitcoin's volatility has already attracted |
| 1:01.4 | hundreds of copycats, publicly traded holding companies known as digital asset treasuries, or debts, |
| 1:08.2 | while his net worth climbed from $1.6 billion in 2022 to $5.4 billion. |
| 1:15.7 | But Strategies premium has disappeared, and its own shares have fallen 60% in a year, |
| 1:22.1 | bringing its market capitalization down to $49 billion, lower than the value of the $56 billion in Bitcoin it holds. |
| 1:30.9 | Last month, S&P Global Ratings assigned strategy a B-minus credit rating, deep into junk territory, |
| 1:38.5 | citing, quote, high Bitcoin concentration, narrow business focus, weak risk-adjusted capitalization, and low U.S. |
| 1:46.2 | dollar liquidity as weaknesses. J.P. Morgan analysts also warned in a recent note that strategy |
| 1:53.3 | is at risk of being removed from major benchmarks, including MSCI USA and the NASDAQ-100. |
| 2:00.0 | If MSCI moves ahead the NASDAQ 100. |
| 2:01.1 | If MSCI moves ahead, as much as $2.8 billion could flee the stock, with more at risk |
| 2:07.4 | if other index providers follow. |
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