MicroStrategy Incorporated (NASDAQ: MSTR), the application software company, was up 5.3% in today’s session, trading at $161.22 as of 20:14 London time. The latest quote sits just below the day’s high of $161.42, in a session that has not yet finished.
The shares have traded between a low of $152.63 and that high so far today, a gain of 5.31% on the session. MicroStrategy is a technology-sector company with a market value of about $63.0 billion, and the move is being made on lighter trading than usual.
MicroStrategy’s share price over the month to today: daily closes for earlier sessions plus the latest delayed quote.
How unusual this is
Measured against recent history, a 5.3% rise is a sizeable move but not a record one: it ranks 34th among the moves of the last 126 sessions.
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Daily changes in MicroStrategy shares over six months, with today’s move so far highlighted.
Volume is the other detail of the session. So far today 14,306,952 shares have changed hands, against a 20-day average of 23,253,260. That is about 62% of the average, so trading is lighter than usual rather than heavier, even with the price up more than 5%.
MicroStrategy last made a move of this size on the 21st of September, seven sessions ago. The company’s next results are due on the 29th of October.
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