{"id":3211,"date":"2025-05-05T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/semler-scientific-buys-167-more-btc-now-one-of-the-largest-bitcoin-treasury-holders-in-u-s\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:16:07","slug":"semler-scientific-buys-167-more-btc-now-one-of-the-largest-bitcoin-treasury-holders-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/semler-scientific-buys-167-more-btc-now-one-of-the-largest-bitcoin-treasury-holders-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Semler Scientific Buys 167 More BTC, Now One Of The Largest Bitcoin Treasury Holders In U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/semler-scientific-buys-167-more-btc-now-one-of-the-largest-bitcoin-treasury-holders-in-u-s\">Semler Scientific Buys 167 More BTC, Now One Of The Largest Bitcoin Treasury Holders In U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Semler Scientific (Nasdaq: SMLR) has acquired 167 additional bitcoins for $16.2 million between April 30 and May 2, 2025, using proceeds from its at-the-market (ATM) equity offering. This latest purchase brings the company\u2019s total BTC holdings to 3,634, making it one of the largest public Bitcoin treasury companies in the United States.\u201c$SMLR acquires 167 #Bitcoins for $16.2 million and has generated BTC Yield of 22.2% YTD. Now holding 3,634 $BTC and is now the fourth largest Bitcoin Treasury Company in the U.S.,\u201d said Eric Semler, Chairman of Semler Scientific, in a post on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24SMLR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">$SMLR<\/a> acquires 167 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#Bitcoins<\/a> for $16.2 million and has generated BTC Yield of 22.2% YTD.  Now holding 3,634 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">$BTC<\/a> and is now the fourth largest Bitcoin Treasury Company in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Semler (@SemlerEric) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SemlerEric\/status\/1919363356151927078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 5, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The average purchase price for this recent acquisition was $97,093 per bitcoin, inclusive of fees and expenses. The company\u2019s total bitcoin investment now sits at $322.3 million, with a market value of $352.4 million as of May 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Semler Scientific also <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.semlerscientific.com\/node\/10811\/html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> a BTC Yield of 22.2% year-to-date\u2014a key performance indicator the company uses to assess how efficiently it\u2019s using equity capital to acquire Bitcoin. The KPI is derived from the change in the ratio between bitcoin holdings and assumed diluted shares outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Since launching its ATM equity program on April 15, Semler has raised approximately $39.8 million by selling over 1.1 million shares. The strategy is part of a broader capital shift toward a Bitcoin-heavy treasury approach that Semler Scientific believes is accretive to shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>This bold Bitcoin accumulation strategy has not only moved the company into the <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/?s=Semler\">Bitcoin spotlight<\/a> but also revived its market narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were the second U.S. public company to adopt Bitcoin as a primary treasury reserve strategy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/bitcoin-for-corporations\/how-semler-scientific-smlr-escaped-the-zombie-zone-with-a-bitcoin-treasury-strategy\">Semler stated in an interview last month.<\/a> \u201cIt looked eerily similar to MicroStrategy in August of 2020\u2026 We weren\u2019t really growing. We needed to figure out a way to jump start our growth and we settled on Bitcoin, which was a great decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What began as a play to escape stagnant market valuation\u2014what Semler called a \u201czombie company\u201d\u2014has evolved into a defining transformation. \u201cOur stock at one point had quadrupled. Now it\u2019s basically doubled\u2026 it was doing nothing for years,\u201d he stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now a reference point for institutions seeking indirect exposure to BTC, SMLR continues to gain relevance. \u201cMost investment funds can\u2019t buy ETFs,\u201d said Semler. \u201cWe\u2019re really their only way to get exposure to Bitcoin in the stock market.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the mission isn\u2019t slowing down. \u201cWe\u2019re early in accumulating Bitcoin, and we\u2019re gonna continue to do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/semler-scientific-buys-167-more-btc-now-one-of-the-largest-bitcoin-treasury-holders-in-u-s\">Semler Scientific Buys 167 More BTC, Now One Of The Largest Bitcoin Treasury Holders In U.S.<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/jennamontgomery\">Jenna Montgomery<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Semler Scientific Buys 167 More BTC, Now One Of The Largest Bitcoin Treasury Holders In U.S. Semler Scientific (Nasdaq: SMLR) has acquired 167 additional bitcoins for $16.2 million between April 30 and May 2, 2025, using proceeds from its at-the-market (ATM) equity offering. This latest purchase brings the company\u2019s total BTC holdings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}