Plan your Automation Anywhere ISO exercise

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Automation Anywhere is pre-IPO. Plan your AMT impact at any valuation: current 409A, expected IPO price, or post-IPO scenarios.

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Your grant

Seeded from secondary-market data, as of Jun 16, 2026

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For long-term capital gains treatment on the eventual sale, ISO shares need to be held until Apr 30, 2027 (2 years from grant) and at least 1 year from exercise. Tranches sold before either deadline are disqualifying dispositions, taxed as ordinary income on the bargain element. The optimizer accounts for both treatments per tranche based on hold periods at horizon. Want to see the whole picture? Try OptionsAhoy's beta: it optimizes ISOs alongside your entire portfolio, and you pick the goal: Max Value, Max Cash, or Min Total Tax.

Net final value at year 3 sale — optimized plan

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After-tax dollars at end of year 3, net of all federal + state taxes through the sale.

This year: exercise 10,000 shares.

AMT premium for exercising: $0 (on top of $228,434 regular tax across the horizon)

Lump-sum stays under your AMT crossover — no schedule optimization needed.

No bargain element to exercise (FMV ≤ strike). AMT does not apply.

Estimates only. Not financial advice.

Net final value by year

Running tally: NTV from shares exercised through year y, minus AMT premium paid through year y. The last year matches the plan's headline NTV. Hover a year for plan totals.

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Optimized exercise schedule

You pay the higher of Regular tax and Tentative AMT per jurisdiction, then subtract Credit recovered. The result is Net tax. Hover any number for the bracket-by-bracket breakdown.

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Plan comparison

Net value at the end of your hold horizon.

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Equal shares each year

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Tax-aware schedule

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Estimates only. Excludes disqualifying dispositions, NSOs, multi-state moves, and AMT preferences other than ISO bargain elements. Long-term capital gains tax assumes a qualifying disposition (ISO held ≥1 yr from exercise and ≥2 yr from grant); state LTCG follows ordinary brackets except where the state grants preferential treatment (HI, ND, SC, WI, AR, NM) or has a dedicated LTCG-only tax (WA). Assumes you are within the $100K ISO limit (any portion of an annual ISO grant whose FMV at grant exceeds $100K is treated as NSO from the start, §422(d)). State AMT figures are 2025 (next-year values published in late 2026). Not financial advice.

QSBS note. If your shares qualify (typically pre-IPO C-corp grants held 5+ years), a federal rule lets you exclude up to $10M of gain on a future sale from federal tax. That single rule shifts exercise-timing math more than AMT does. (This is §1202 “qualified small-business stock”.) Modeled in beta, not here.

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About Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere is a privately held Cloud/SaaS company, headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Last reported secondary-market price: $3.5 per share (as of 2026-06-16). Your own 409A may differ.

RPA.

Equity grants at Automation Anywhere typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).

Automation Anywhere is an American global software company that develops robotic process automation (RPA) software.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Founded in 2003 by Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta, Ankur Kothari, and Rushabh Parmani as Tethys Solutions (rebranded 2010), the San Jose company bootstrapped for 15 years before SoftBank led a $300M round in 2018. Today the platform spans RPA, document AI, Process Discovery, Automation Co-Pilot, and AI Agent Studio, all orchestrated through the Mozart agentic system. Gartner named it a Magic Quadrant Leader for RPA seven years running. Cumulative funding tops $1.1B; executives say they remain IPO-ready after shelving the Sep 2024 filing, with private-market marks ranging from roughly $2B to $9B in 2026.

Sources: automationanywhere.com · forgeglobal.com · tracxn.com

Equity comp at Automation Anywhere

  • Long-private RPA company (founded 2003) with multiple IPO false starts; confidentially filed S-1 in September 2024 then delayed amid market conditions and pricing pressure from publicly traded competitor UiPath. SoftBank Vision Fund led the $300M Series B in 2018 (valuation ~$2.6B) and remains the largest backer; subsequent rounds pushed valuation to ~$6.8B in 2019. Prolonged private status makes double-trigger RSU vesting effectively universal to avoid taxing illiquid shares.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · reuters.com

Researched 2026-05-11.

OptionsAhoy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Automation Anywhere.

The calculator works at any Automation Anywhere valuation: enter your strike, the current 409A FMV, an expected IPO price, or anywhere in between. AMT is triggered on the bargain element (FMV minus strike) when you exercise; the calculator models federal AMT, state AMT, and the multi-year credit-recovery path.

Example: at Automation Anywhere's last reported price of $3.5, exercising 5,000 ISOs with a $1.05 strike creates a $12,250 bargain element. Above the 2026 federal AMT exemption ($88,100 single, $137,000 married joint), the 28% AMT rate adds roughly $3,430 on top of regular tax before any state AMT (CA, CO, CT, MN). The credit recovers in later years when your regular tax exceeds AMT. The calculator above runs your exact figures.

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Automation Anywhere equity questions

How much alternative minimum tax (AMT) will I owe exercising Automation Anywhere ISOs?
Exercising incentive stock options (ISOs) does not create regular income tax, but the bargain element (the fair market value at exercise minus your strike price) counts toward the alternative minimum tax (AMT). The amount depends on the bargain element, your other income, your filing status, and your state. The calculator above models federal and state AMT, the AMT crossover point, and how the credit recovers in later years for your exact Automation Anywhere figures.
Does Automation Anywhere grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
Equity compensation at Automation Anywhere typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise.
Are Automation Anywhere shares eligible for QSBS?
They might be. Qualified small business stock (QSBS) under Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 can exclude federal tax on much of the gain when shares were acquired at original issuance from a C-corporation while its gross assets were under $50 million, and held at least five years. Whether your Automation Anywhere shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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