Strategy shareholders approved an amendment letting its four preferred stocks, STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD, accrue dividends every calendar day, including weekends and holidays, with 99.3% of votes cast in favor according to preliminary results. STRC will move first, with its first daily record date on November 1 and payment on November 2, while the other three switch over with a first record date on January 1 and payment on January 4, subject to filing amended terms for each stock. Record dates falling on non-trading days will be treated as the previous business day, so dividends are effectively grouped and paid on the next business day; for STRC, record dates rise from 24 a year to 365. STRC traded at $99.86 against its $100 par value, and last week Strategy paused Bitcoin purchases for the first time since mid-September to spend $204.9 million buying back STRC. Separately, Strategy faces possible removal from MSCI's widely tracked equity indexes, after MSCI finalized a rule treating companies whose balance sheets are dominated by a single asset as ineligible and will publish affected companies on November 11.
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