CYABRA, INC. (CYAB) AMT + ISO Calculator
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Your grant
Tax inputs
Schedule A, line 7. The 2026 deduction is capped at $40,400, less above $505,000 of income.
Grant timeline
Net final value at year 3 sale — optimized plan
$226,772
After-tax dollars at end of year 3, net of all federal + state taxes through the sale.
This year: exercise 2,492 shares (of 10,000 total).
= gross gain at sale − federal + state LTCG − AMT premium above baseline regular tax (time-valued)
AMT premium for exercising: $105,649 (on top of $230,496 regular tax across the horizon)
Optimized plan keeps $55,350 more than lump-sum, $896 more than even split.
Federal AMT crossover this year: 914 shares ($41,138 bargain element). Above that, each additional share this year adds federal AMT.
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.
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.
| 1 | 2,492 | |||
| 2 | 2,594 | |||
| 3 | 4,914 |
Federal AMT credit
Earned
$94,302
Recovered
$0
Remaining
$94,302
The AMT credit only recovers in years where regular tax exceeds AMT — typically a year with no ISO exercise. Every year in this schedule has bargain element, so AMT exceeds regular tax in every year and the credit carries forward untouched. Try a longer horizon or fewer total shares to introduce a recovery year.
Plan comparison
Net value at the end of your hold horizon.
Lump-sum
All in Year 1
$171,423
−$55,350
Even split
Equal shares each year
$225,877
−$896
Optimized
Tax-aware schedule
$226,772
Highest
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.
You optimized one grant in isolation. The beta optimizes ISOs alongside your RSUs, NSOs, and stock in one plan.
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About CYABRA, INC.
CYABRA, INC. (CYAB) is a public Cloud/SaaS company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. IPO'd Mar 27, 2026.
Nasdaq; SPAC merger with Trailblazer Merger Corp closed 2026-03-27; no options-chain coverage (Nasdaq option chain unavailable).
Equity grants at CYABRA, INC. typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Cyabra builds a platform that scans social media and online news for fake accounts, coordinated bot networks, and AI-generated (GenAI) disinformation campaigns, selling the analysis to corporate and government clients. Dan Brahmy, Yossi Daar, and Ido Shraga, veterans of Israeli intelligence units, founded the company in 2017 in Tel Aviv. On March 27, 2026, Cyabra completed its merger with the special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Trailblazer Merger Corp I and began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker CYAB, becoming the first publicly traded company focused solely on countering disinformation.
Sources: globenewswire.com · sec.gov · timesofisrael.com
Equity comp at CYABRA, INC.
- Cyabra (a Tel Aviv, Israel based company that became Nasdaq-listed via SPAC merger in March 2026) grants equity under a dual-plan structure: a 2026 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan plus a 2026 Israeli Sub-Plan. The sub-plan exists to let Israeli employees receive options or RSUs under the tax-advantaged track of Section 102 of the Israeli Income Tax Ordinance (gains held via a trustee for a required period can qualify for lower capital-gains tax rather than ordinary income tax). At the March 27, 2026 close of the business combination, the company also granted 400,000 RSUs to certain key employees that vested immediately (fully vested at closing) as a one-time transaction-related grant, rather than under a standard multi-year schedule.
Sources: sec.gov · sec.gov · sec.gov
Researched 2026-09-03.
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Use this calculator to plan a CYABRA, INC. (CYAB) ISO exercise around the AMT bargain element from the current trading price. The math accounts for federal AMT, state AMT (CA, CO, CT, MN where applicable), AMT crossover, and year-over-year credit recovery. Inputs are yours: strike price, share count, FMV at exercise, and your filing-status income.
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CYABRA, INC. equity questions
- How much alternative minimum tax (AMT) will I owe exercising CYABRA, INC. 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 CYABRA, INC. figures.
- Does CYABRA, INC. grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at CYABRA, INC. 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.
- When did the CYABRA, INC. IPO lockup expire?
- CYABRA, INC. (CYAB) went public on March 27, 2026. The standard post-IPO lockup runs 180 days, so employee and insider shares generally became sellable around September 23, 2026. Confirm against your own grant paperwork, since some lockups release early or in stages.
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