MicroStrategy Incorporated

On April 7, 2025, Strategy disclosed that, following its adoption of Accounting Standards Update No. 2023-08 (“ASU 2023-08”), which requires publicly traded companies to measure their crypto assets at fair value in their financial statements, it recognized a $5.91 billion unrealized loss on its digital assets for the first quarter 2025. The Company warned that it “may not be able to regain profitability in future periods, particularly if [it] incur[s] significant unrealized losses related to [its] digital assets.”

On this news, Strategy’s stock price fell $25.47, or 8.7%, to close at $268.14 per share on April 7, 2025, thereby injuring investors.

Then, on May 1, 2025, Strategy released its first quarter 2025 financial results, confirming that it had recorded an unrealized fair value loss on digital assets of approximately $5.9 billion due to applying a fair value accounting methodology to Strategy’s bitcoin assets following bitcoin’s depreciation in value during the first quarter of 2025.

The complaint filed in this class action alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) the anticipated profitability of the Company’s bitcoin-focused investment strategy and treasury operations was overstated; (2) the various risks associated with bitcoin’s volatility and the magnitude of losses Strategy could recognize on the value of its digital assets following its adoption of ASU 2023-08  were understated; and (3) as a result, Defendants’ positive statements about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.