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Swedish Bitcoin treasury firm B Treasury Capital AB expects its new BTC PREF preference share to start trading on the Spotlight Stock Market on Monday, July 20. Investors left 47.7% of the rights offer unfilled, so the market will soon reveal what buyers are willing to pay for a new route to funding further Bitcoin purchases.<\/p>\n

Investors subscribed<\/a> for 102,025 of 195,078 shares, or 52% of the offer, according to the issuer's July 2 result<\/a>. The issue produced about SEK 12.2 million ($1.26 million) gross and SEK 11.9 million ($1.23 million) net, compared with a maximum of roughly SEK 23.4 million ($2.42 million) gross.<\/p>\n\n

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The 10% issue yield faces a price test<\/h2>\n

BTC PREF pays SEK 1 per month, totaling SEK 12 per year on the SEK 120 subscription price. If paid as scheduled, the official terms<\/a> indicate an annual cash yield of 10% at issue.<\/p>\n

The same scheduled payment produces a different indicated cash yield at each market price. At SEK 100, SEK 12 represents 12%; at SEK 90, it represents about 13.3%. Dividends may be deferred, however, and unpaid shortfalls accumulate without interest ahead of dividends on Class B common shares. The calculations are therefore neither guaranteed returns nor total returns.<\/p>\n

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A drop well below SEK 120 would suggest investors want a richer payout than BTC AB offered. Sparse trading would raise a different concern, since a single small trade can move the quoted price without demonstrating real demand from income investors.<\/p>\n\n

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BTC AB describes BTC PREF as preferred equity <\/a>intended to add balance-sheet capital without debt or large repayment obligations. The issuer says the structure is intended to limit common-share dilution, with proceeds directed primarily to Bitcoin purchases and a liquidity reserve for preference dividends.<\/p>\n

The financing avoids a debt maturity but still creates a preferential dividend burden. After the partial take-up, BTC AB has not disclosed the final allocation of proceeds or the resulting reserve balance, leaving dividend coverage as one of the signals investors must assess.<\/p>\n

Strategy provides the obvious benchmark for scale. AB. As of May 25, Strategy provides the obvious benchmark for scale. It reports $15.46 billion of preferred stock and a $3 billion USD reserve, equivalent to 20.4 months of dividend coverage. Strategy also adopted a policy requiring the reserve to cover at least 12 months of expected preferred dividends and debt interest. BTC AB now has to establish credibility in price, liquidity, and reserves on its own terms.<\/p>\n\n

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A sustained discount would lift BTC PREF's indicated cash yield above 10% and could make another offer on the same SEK 120 price and SEK 12 scheduled dividend harder.<\/p>\n

Thin trading would leave the market signal inconclusive.<\/p>\n

Either would constrain BTC AB's ability to treat preferred equity as a repeat financing channel, while trading near the issue price with meaningful volume would provide evidence, not proof, of demand outside the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BTC PREF is expected to begin trading July 20, with any discount to SEK 120 lifting the indicated cash yield above 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1264,"featured_media":548679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77873,80573,77968,35372,79849],"tags":[81073,77433,80041],"prediction_market_topic":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBitcoin treasury company offers 10% income and still can't sell nearly half its shares<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bitcoin treasury firm fails to sell nearly half its 10% income offering as investors pass on preferred shares despite a high yield.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/a-bitcoin-treasury-company-offered-10-income-and-still-could-not-sell-nearly-half-its-shares\/\" 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