Metaplanet Bitcoin Holdings Increases to 4,525 BTC, Latest Acquisition Price Reaches $26.3 Million

Japanese medical services company SBC Medical Group Holdings announced on April 14, 2025 that it has completed the purchase of 5 Bitcoins, worth approximately 60 million yen (400,000 US dollars). This move is based on the company's Bitcoin purchase plan disclosed on February 12, 2025, when it planned to purchase 1 billion yen (about 6.7 million US dollars) worth of Bitcoin to achieve the long-term strategic goals of asset diversification and inflation resistance, and is expected to be completed between February and May 2025.

This latest purchase brings SBC Medical Group Holdings' total Bitcoin holdings to 4,525 BTC, worth approximately $386.3 million at current prices. Since 2023, the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company has steadily accumulated Bitcoin through strategic financial operations, using a variety of methods such as direct market purchases, cash-secured call options, and capital market financing to maximize Bitcoin acquisitions and reduce costs.

Metaplanet also uses the key metric “BTC production” to track the growth of its Bitcoin holdings relative to outstanding shares. In the last quarter of 2024, the company reported a high yield of 309.8%. However, in the first quarter of 2025, this metric fell to 95.6%, and since the beginning of April, it has fallen further to 6.5%.

The purchase puts Metaplanet among the top ten corporate holders of Bitcoin in the world, surpassing companies such as Semler Scientific and Bitcoin Group, and also increases its overall ownership of the total Bitcoin supply to about 0.02%. This year alone, the company has made more than eight Bitcoin purchases. In March, Metaplanet purchased 162 Bitcoins for a total price of $13.5 million, at an average price of $83,123 per coin, thus breaking the 3,000 BTC mark. On April 1, the company purchased 696 Bitcoins through cash-secured options, setting another milestone.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said the company aims to hold 10,000 bitcoins by the end of 2025 and 21,000 bitcoins by the end of 2026, equivalent to 0.1% of the total supply of cryptocurrencies. To achieve this goal, the company recently invited Eric Trump, the second son of former US President Donald Trump, to join its new strategic advisory board. Eric Trump called Bitcoin "one of the most valuable stores of value" and as a key figure in his family's cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial, he is expected to help promote Metaplanet's ambitious Bitcoin acquisition plan.

In terms of market reaction, Bitcoin has shown strong resilience. Currently trading at $84,431, Bitcoin has only fallen 0.2% in the past 24 hours. Despite this small correction, Bitcoin prices have soared nearly 10% in the past seven days, significantly outperforming the broader cryptocurrency market, which has only increased by 5.3% during the same period. Bitcoin's dominance in the market remains strong, accounting for 60.6%, far higher than Ethereum's 7.07%. However, the price of Bitcoin is still below its all-time high of $108,786 reached earlier this year.