Sell in May and leave
Since the end of April and the whole of May, American companies have been reporting on financial results for the first quarter of the year. At the same time, in 2025, Cryptoinee demonstrated confident growth, which resulted in a new historical maximum price of bitcoin. Plus, Donald Trump handed back and weakened trade duties for almost all countries of the world. How did the shares of companies that invest in bitcoin react to all this, accept it as a payment or engage in mining? Was this time the famous American proverb “Sell in May and Go Away” worked (“Sell in May and Leave”)?
Riot Platforms (Nasdaq: Riot)
The rating of the largest crypto companies opens the Riot Platform miner with a capitalization of $ 3.05 billion. In May, the company’s shares showed an increase of 18.09%. This is not surprising, given that the growth of bitcoin was observed the whole month, and the profit of miners directly depends on its price (the more expensive BTC, the more mining companies earn). In addition, at the beginning of the month, the company reported on the results of the production of the largest cryptocurrency for April 2025. In just a month, 465 BTC was received. Compared to March,
decreased by 13%, however, it grew compared to April 2024 by 23%.
Source: TradingView.com
Core Scientific (Nasdaq: Corz)
Another mining company – Core Scientific with a market capitalization of $ 3.18 billion – takes ninth place. Its shares in May rose immediately by 31.88%, which is explained by the rise in the cost of bitcoin. In addition, on May 7, financial results were presented for the first quarter. In accordance with them, net profit
increased 2.76 times compared to the same period a year earlier and amounted to $ 510.7 million. This also gave investors of positive and faith in the Core Scientific Promotion.
Source: TradingView.com
Mara Holdings (Nasdaq: Mara)
The eighth in the list of the largest capitalization is Mara Holdings with $ 5.18 billion. Its activities are associated both with mining and in general with the development of the digital assets ecosystem. The company’s shares in May added 10.17%. This is largely due to the growth of bitcoin. However, the Mara Holdings shares did not rise much. This is due to a rather weak report of the company for the first quarter: net loss
Compiled more than $ 0.5 billion, while a year earlier for the same period, a profit of $ 337.2 million was recorded.
Source: TradingView.com
Galaxy Digital Holdings (TSX: GLXY)
The seventh place in Galaxy Digital Holdings with its market capitalization $ 7.7 billion. May for this organization engaged in trading, investment, mining and many others were quite successful. Promotions grew by 43.61%. At the same time, in the course of trading on May 16, they reached $ 35.3, which became a maximum in three years. It was on that day that Galaxy Digital Holdings securities became available not only on the Toronto Stock Exchange, but also on the American NASDAQ, under the same GLXY ticer. It is interesting that even the negative financial report for the first quarter of 2025 did not interfere with the growth, according to which the company
Demonstrated Pure loss of $ 295 million.
Source: TradingView.com
Block (NYSE: XYZ)
A company focusing on electronic payments, including cryptocurrency, and at the same time an investor in bitcoins, Block, takes sixth place with a capitalization of $ 36.12 billion. May 2025 turned out to be neutral for its shares: the growth was only 0.46%. An obstacle to Block securities was the report for the first quarter of 2025. The data that were presented in it turned out to be worse than expectations. The income amounted to $ 5.96 billion, which is 3% less than the same indicator a year earlier. The consensus prognosis here was $ 6.2 billion. The gross income grew compared to the first quarter of 2024 by 9% to $ 2.29 billion. Nevertheless
consensus prognosis At $ 2.32 billion and it was not possible to reach here.
Source: TradingView.com
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (NYSE: GBTC)
Grayscale – Grayscale Bitcoin Trust – occupied the fifth position with a capitalization of $ 59.37 billion. Like Bitcoin, the Fund, the Fund was able to update their historical maximum: May 22, reached $ 88.36. At the same time, GBTC continues the outflow of cash. Only on May 1 was a flow of money of $ 16.01 million. Cumulative (total) outflow for a month by May 25 was $ 316.6 million.
Source: TradingView.com
Coinbase (Nasdaq: Coin)
In fourth place is the largest American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase with a market capitalization of $ 67.02 billion. Its shares were added to 29.71%in May. The growth of bitcoin to the historical maximum had a certain influence on Coinbase securities, but did not become decisive. A much greater effect was the inclusion of crypto -tank shares in the exchange index S&P500 since May 19. This is not an ordinary event. Coinbase
I became The first representative of the crypto industry, whose shares are used in calculating the S&P500 index.
Source: TradingView.com
PayPal (nasdaq: pypl)
The three leaders open the PayPal payment service with a market capitalization of $ 67.93 billion. The company offers traditional methods for paying for goods, as well as calculation options in cryptocurrency. PayPal shares against the background of an increase in bitcoin prices added 6.09%in May. Even from positive points, one can note the conclusion of an agreement on integration with the Perplexity search engine. Since the summer of 2025, customers from the USA
They can Use the Perplexity Pro chat to accommodate orders or selection of services.
Source: TradingView.com
Strategy (nasdaq: mstr)
In second place is the company Strategy (former Microstrategy) with a capitalization of $ 102.21 billion. The company’s activities include cloud services, development of smartphone software and business analytics. And the company is actively investing in BTC. In May, Strategy shares fell by 2.79%, despite Bitcoin renewal of historical maximum. The thing is that investors are apprehensive belonging to the aggressive policy of the company to sell their own securities for the acquisition of the largest cryptocurrency. Recently it became known about the sale of the next package of privileged shares in the amount of $ 2.1 billion. In addition, the report for the first quarter of 2025, which Strategy introduced on May 1, turned out to be not the most impressive: pure loss grew to $ 4.1 billion, and income fell 3.6% compared to the previous year, compared to the previous year, compared to the previous year, compared to the previous year
Once Below consensus prognosis.
Source: TradingView.com
Tesla (nasdaq: tsla)
The first place is occupied by the manufacturer of electric cars and one of the largest bitcoin holders – Tesla with a market capitalization of $ 1.093 trillion. In May, the company’s shares increased by more than 20%, and their cost rose above $ 300 for the first time since February. In many ways, this development of events was facilitated by the proposal of Donald Trump to reduce duties on Chinese imports to 80% from the initial 145%. It is no secret that Tesla uses a lot of spare parts from the Middle Kingdom. It is also worth noting that the Kraken crypto -rope intends to provide the possibility of trading in the company’s shares for non -American users. These securities will
Available On the site in the form of tokens.
Source: TradingView.com
Conclusion
Thus, May 2025 turned out to be quite successful for most crypto companies. The only major player whose shares have decreased over this period of time was Strategy. Securities of all other organizations grew after bitcoin. Sellers in May were losing, and buyers were gaining.
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