Michael Saylor, co-founder of MicroStrategy, recently highlighted his company's remarkable stock performance on the social media platform X, noting that it outpaced major players like Amazon and Alphabet
On the last trading day of the week, MicroStrategy (MSTR) recorded an impressive $5.8 billion in trading volume, surpassing Amazon’s $5.5 billion and Alphabet’s $2.4 billion.
Saylor referred to this achievement as making “the Magnificent 8,” alluding to the term coined by CNBC’s Jim Cramer to describe the dominant tech stocks known as the “Magnificent 7.”
In this elite group, Tesla leads with $43.5 billion in trading volume, followed by Nvidia at $29 billion, with Apple, Microsoft, and Meta also featured in the top five.
Considering MicroStrategy’s market cap of around $47.48 billion, its ability to outperform some of these “Magnificent 7” stocks is quite noteworthy.
Over the past month, MicroStrategy’s stock has climbed over 22%, and year-to-date, it has surged an astonishing 242%, significantly outpacing Bitcoin. Currently, the company’s Bitcoin holdings exceed $17 billion.
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