Why Strategy’s STRC calculator shows $210 for a share it can redeem at $101

Strategy’s Bitcoin credit calculator produced an illustrative STRC price of $210.90 on Oct. 2, while displaying a market-price input of $99.50 for the perpetual preferred stock. The issuer also retains the option to redeem shares at $101, or a higher amount it chooses, plus applicable unpaid dividends.That gap exposes the limits of the calculation. The published formula holds the current dividend constant and replaces the market’s credit spread with a modeled Bitcoin spread. It contains no explicit valuation of the issuer’s call option or a path for future dividend resets. Strategy’s pricing dashboard separately discloses those features and warns that the call can make Derived Price diverge substantially from realizable market prices.For buyers, the calculation is a view of the security under selected assumptions. It does not establish that STRC is worth more than twice its displayed market price, or that a holder can collect either the model output or the redemption amount on demand.How the calculator reaches $210.90At approximately 08:18 UTC on Oct. 2, the dashboard used a Bitcoin price input of $86,593, an assumed annual return of 10% and volatility of 40%. Its STRC row showed a...