Anthony Pompliano’s ProCap Financial buys 450 bitcoin, steps up share buybacks

• ProCap Financial purchased 450 Bitcoin, lifting total holdings to 5,457 BTC and reducing its average cost basis.
• The company repurchased 782,408 shares over the past 10 days at a significant discount to NAV.

ProCap Financial (BRR), the first publicly traded agentic finance firm, has purchased 450 bitcoin BTC$69,300.15, increasing its total holdings to 5,457 BTC.

The acquisition makes ProCap the 19th largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, while lowering the company’s average cost basis per coin.

Chairman and CEO Anthony Pompliano said the company is executing a dual strategy, “buying bitcoin to average down our total cost basis and buying back our own stock when the market misprices it,” adding that both actions are accretive to shareholders. He noted the firm’s disciplined balance sheet has positioned it to take advantage of bitcoin’s pullback from its all time high.

ProCap also repurchased 782,408 shares of its common stock over the past 10 days at a significant discount to net asset value (NAV). The company said the discount to NAV has narrowed during that period and plans to continue buybacks as long as the shares trade below intrinsic value.

BRR shares traded over 3.75% higher during the U.S. morning on Monday, possibly buoyed by a lift in bitcoin's price, that saw it gain more than 4.5% to sit above $68,500.

UPDATE (March 2, 13:30 UTC): Removes references to 2% lift in BRR in pre-market, qualifying that any increase is on thin volume.

UPDATE (March 2, 15:30 UTC): Adds paragraph on BRR's price after the market opened instead of its pre-market movement.

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