{"id":922195,"date":"2026-07-24T06:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/bitcoin-treasury-company-discovers-buying-own-stock-adds-24-more-btc-per-share-than-buying-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:19:58","slug":"bitcoin-treasury-company-discovers-buying-own-stock-adds-24-more-btc-per-share-than-buying-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/bitcoin-treasury-company-discovers-buying-own-stock-adds-24-more-btc-per-share-than-buying-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin treasury company discovers buying own stock adds 24% more BTC per share than buying Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<div id=\"single-post-box-container-548793\">\n<article id=\"article\">\n<div>\n<header>\n<div>\n<nav aria-label=\"Post categories\"><\/nav>\n<p>Across its first five buybacks, B HODL added 24% more gross Bitcoin per share for every pound spent than a direct BTC purchase would have.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/liam-akiba-wright\/\" title=\"Liam 'Akiba' Wright Profile\" aria-label=\"Liam 'Akiba' Wright Profile\"> <img alt=\"bitcoins Liam 'Akiba' Wright\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/about-liam-150x150.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/about-liam-150x150.jpg 2x\" height=\"64\" width=\"64\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" > <\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Editor-in-Chief<\/span>  <span>CryptoSlate<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p><span> <time datetime=\"2026-07-20T19:00:28+00:00\" title=\"Published Jul. 20, 2026 at 7:00 pm GMT\"> <span>Jul. 20, 2026<\/span> <span>at 7:00 pm GMT<\/span> <\/time> <\/span>  <span>  <span> <span> 2 min read<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section aria-labelledby=\"news-quick-take-title-548793\">\n<ol>\n<li>  <span>B HODL said its first week of buybacks lifted gross Bitcoin per share 24% more than spending the same cash on Bitcoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>  <span>The result suggests discounted treasury stock can be a better way to boost BTC exposure per share than open-market coin buying.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>  <span>The comparison is still partial, because fees, liabilities, cash runway and NAV details could change the verdict.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<div data-title=\"Bitcoin treasury company discovers buying own stock adds 24% more BTC per share than buying Bitcoin\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-treasury-discovers-buying-own-stock-adds-24-more-btc-per-share-than-buying-bitcoin\/\" data-id=\"548793\">\n<div>\n<p>When a Bitcoin treasury trades for less than the Bitcoin it holds, the cheapest way to increase gross Bitcoin exposure per share may be to buy back its own stock.<\/p>\n<p>UK-listed B HODL Plc tested that inversion during its first week of repurchases. It paid about \u00a337,985 before fees to retire 823,400 shares, generating about 24% more gross sats-per-share accretion per pound than using the same cash to buy Bitcoin at the comparison price.<\/p>\n<p>That 24% edge is before fees, and the numbers stop short of showing a full NAV-per-share gain.<\/p>\n<p>B HODL&#8217;s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhodl.com\/investors\/analytics\">dashboard<\/a> on July 19 showed 166.487 BTC, a 5.25 pence share price and a \u00a37.385 million market capitalization. At the displayed <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin price<\/a> of \u00a348,237, the holdings were worth about \u00a38.031 million, leaving a roughly \u00a3646,000 gap.<\/p>\n<p>Applying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/transaction-in-own-shares\/9673576\">latest announced post-cancellation share count<\/a> at the same stock price puts the equity value at about \u00a37.378 million, roughly \u00a3652,000 or 8.1% below the Bitcoin value. Both sides of the comparison move continuously.<\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoins Why buying shares beat buying Bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p>B HODL&#8217;s \u00a3100,000 buyback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/ordinary-share-buyback-programme-\/9659709\">authorization<\/a> took effect July 9. Disclosures covering purchases on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/transaction-in-own-shares-\/9661991\">July 9<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/transaction-in-own-shares\/9664223\">July 10<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/transaction-in-own-shares\/9666664\">July 13<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/transaction-in-own-shares\/9671305\">July 15,<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/transaction-in-own-shares\/9673576\">July 16<\/a> total 823,400 shares at a calculated weighted average of 4.613 pence. The purchases used about 38% of the authorization before fees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ig_OgAhMLwDguKOaxDooSNvmKY6.png\" alt=\"bitcoins Infographic comparing B HODL's \u00a37.378 million equity value with \u00a38.031 million of Bitcoin and showing its \u00a337,985 buyback added 0.690 sat per share versus 0.557 from buying Bitcoin, 24% more per pound.\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ig_OgAhMLwDguKOaxDooSNvmKY6.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ig_OgAhMLwDguKOaxDooSNvmKY6-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ig_OgAhMLwDguKOaxDooSNvmKY6-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ig_OgAhMLwDguKOaxDooSNvmKY6-768x1152.png 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" ><\/p>\n<p>After the announced cancellations, the share count falls from 141,366,091 to 140,542,691. Holding 166.487 BTC constant, gross Bitcoin per share rises from 117.77 to 118.46 sats, an increase of 0.69 sat or 0.59%.<\/p>\n<p>At the same \u00a348,237 Bitcoin price, \u00a337,985 would buy about 0.787 BTC. Spreading that purchase across the original share count would add about 0.557 sat per share, compared with the buyback&#8217;s 0.690-sat lift. On those matched assumptions, retiring the equity was about 24% more accretive per pound.<\/p>\n<h2>Bitcoins Why B HODL can buy and sell its stock<\/h2>\n<p>B HODL is keeping its at-the-market issuance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/btc-purchase-atm-completion-launch-of-new-atm-\/9504439\">program<\/a> open alongside the buyback. Its ATM permits share sales only when they are accretive under the company&#8217;s Bitcoin-mNAV framework.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cs-inline-newsletter-6a633fe5043d5\" data-inline-newsletter>\n<div>\n<p><span>CryptoSlate Daily Brief<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Daily signals, zero noise.<\/h3>\n<p>Market-moving headlines and context delivered every morning in one tight read.<\/p>\n<p><span> 5-minute digest<\/span> <span> 100k+ readers<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Free. No spam. Unsubscribe any time.<\/p>\n<p> <span>You\u2019re subscribed. Welcome aboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Together, the tools create a capital-allocation switch: issue equity when doing so can increase Bitcoin per share, then retire equity when the shares themselves offer cheaper Bitcoin exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a market capitalization below gross Bitcoin holdings is not the same as a discount to full NAV. Full NAV also depends on cash, liabilities, operating assets, costs, and the value of B HODL&#8217;s Lightning Network business.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investegate.co.uk\/announcement\/rns\/b-hodl-plc--hodl\/interim-results-\/9494824\">latest interim balance sheet<\/a> is historical, so the first week demonstrates gross sats-per-share accretion under the stated assumptions, not current NAV-per-share accretion.<\/p>\n<p>For other Bitcoin treasuries trading below their per-share BTC value, the implication is conditional but clear.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing more discounted stock can dilute Bitcoin exposure, while repurchasing it can outperform a direct BTC purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that is the right move still depends on cash runway, debt, trading liquidity and operating needs, a discipline increasingly shaping the <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-treasury-investors-are-turning-on-companies-diluting-them-to-keep-buying\/\">broader treasury sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<header><span>Mentioned in this article<\/span><\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Liam &#8216;Akiba&#8217; Wright <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bitcoin-treasury-discovers-buying-own-stock-adds-24-more-btc-per-share-than-buying-bitcoin\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across its first five buybacks, B HODL added 24% more gross Bitcoin per share for every pound spent than a direct BTC purchase would have. Editor-in-Chief CryptoSlate Jul. 20, 2026 at 7:00 pm GMT 2 min read B HODL said its first week of buybacks lifted gross Bitcoin per share 24% more than spending the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4041,2363],"tags":[11476],"class_list":["post-922195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bitcoin","category-buying","tag-bitcoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}