It’s been a wild ride lately for Michael Saylor, executive chairman of MicroStrategy, once a software company but now really a leveraged play on Bitcoin. The numbers are mind-boggling. Shares of MicroStrategy have soared 459% year to date (versus 26% for the S&P 500),

Key Takeaways MicroStrategy shares continued to move higher along with the price of bitcoin, which traded at more than $98,000 Friday morning.The business intelligence services provider is the largest corporate holder of bitcoin,

MicroStrategy is unique on the stock market because it essentially acts like a leveraged Bitcoin ETF. Chief Executive Officer Michael Saylor, one of the biggest evangelists for the digital coin, began buying it for his company in 2020, and it held 252,220 bitcoins as of the end of the third quarter.