STRC preferred stock investors are mispricing major ‘dislocation’ risk: Analyst

Potential liquidity contractions in secondary markets and surging government bond yields could spell trouble for preferred perpetual stockholders.

Investors are mispricing risk for perpetual preferred stocks, like Bitcoin treasury company Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), according to Matt Dines, the chief investment officer of credit asset management company Build Markets.

The corporate issuers of perpetual preferred stocks never have to repay holders their principal investment, and can just pay dividends indefinitely, without renegotiating the investment terms, Dines told the Truth for the Commoner (TFTC) media outlet.

If holders want to cash out, they must sell the perpetuals on the secondary market to recover their principal, which leaves holders exposed to liquidity contraction and interest rate risks that exist forever because perpetuals lack a maturity date, he said. He added:

Basic performance metrics for Strategy’s STRC perpetual preferred stock. Source: SaylorTracker

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