The Nasdaq is home to many of the best growth stocks in the world. But to join the Nasdaq 100 index is particularly exclusive, since as the name implies, it contains the top 100 (nonfinancial) stocks on the exchange.

Shares of Palantir Technologies, MicroStrategy, and Axon Enterprise traded lower in their first day on the Nasdaq 100 index.

MicroStrategy (MSTR), the software developer that has made acquiring bitcoin (BTC) a core value, added to its holding for a seventh week in a row. The company bought 5,262 BTC for a total of $561 million in the week ended Dec. 22 to take its total holdings to 444,262 BTC it said.

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Shares of MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) fell more than 8.5% Monday, marking a rough debut to its nascent tenure among the Nasdaq 100.

MicroStrategy is targeting a capital raise of up to $2 billion to continue to strengthen its balance sheet and acquire more Bitcoin, the business software company announced. The capital raise will be through one or more public underwritten offerings of perpetual preferred stock,

MicroStrategy’s share price rose to $341.14, after a rocky 24 hours when share prices tanked 40%. Earlier this week, the firm – the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin – announced the acquisition of 2,

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and KULR Technology (NYSEMKT: KULR) both recently generated a lot of buzz with their big investments in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). Microstrategy, which started buying Bitcoin in 2020,

Shares of software company MicroStrategy ($MSTR) climbed to $339.66 on Friday following its recent plunge. The rally came after the company