PANews reported on December 28 that Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet, a Japanese listed company, said on the X platform that among the 55,000 listed companies in the world, Metaplanet ranks first in the 2024 stock price return rate among companies with a market value of more than US$250 million and an average daily trading volume of more than US$50 million, with a return rate of about 2,600% this year. Metaplane's stock price ranks first in Japan's return rate this year, and its market value has soared by about 6,000% this year. Metaplane has become one of the world's largest corporate holders of Bitcoin, ranking 15th among all listed companies, increasing its Bitcoin reserves from zero to 1,761.