Sell Crown Castle (CCI) stock to fund a goal
Calculator · free · no signup · CCINeed cash for a goal? Plan the minimum-tax schedule to sell your vested Crown Castle (CCI) shares and net a target amount by a target date, across tax years.
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Your equity
One stack per ticker (current-employer RSUs, prior-employer holdings, index fund, etc.). Each stack has its own current price, growth assumption, and cost-basis lots.
Drives chance-of-shortfall · default 30%
Lots
Plan
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Lock-in-now is deterministic (0%). Plans that wait depend on future prices; risk is near-zero when inventory comfortably exceeds the goal. Volatility: each stack's option-implied vol if a ticker is set, otherwise 30%. Lognormal model; real markets have fatter tails.
| Tax | $109,654 | $111,723 | $111,788 | $118,699 |
| Wealth @ target | $718,258 | $716,076 | $713,344 | $710,913 |
| Chance of shortfall | <0.1% | 0% | 1.7% | 3.3% |
Feasible
$400,027 net by 08/01/27
Total tax: $109,654 (federal $58,856, state $36,063, NIIT $14,736)
Schedule · Recommended
| Sale date | Shares | Tax | Net | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26/26 | 4,088 | $351,349 | $360,067 | |
| 03/31/27 | 4 | $359 | $360,430 | |
| 04/30/27 | 32 | $2,891 | $363,340 | |
| 05/31/27 | 100 | $9,088 | $372,468 | |
| 06/30/27 | 100 | $9,141 | $381,631 | |
| 07/31/27 | 100 | $9,196 | $390,828 | |
| 08/01/27 | 100 | $9,199 | $400,027 |
Risk vs wealth
Each dot is a possible plan. Right is riskier, up is more wealth left over.
Trajectory of cash netted
Solid line = expected. Shaded band = 10th–90th percentile under price uncertainty.
After the plan
You keep 3,476 shares worth $410,758 at the projected target-date price, invested for the next decision.
You solved for a cash target. The beta optimizes your full portfolio across multiple goals and market scenarios, not just one funding need.
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About Crown Castle
Crown Castle (CCI) is a public Real Estate company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Houston, TX.
Last close: $66.44 per share (as of 2026-10-03).
Equity grants at Crown Castle typically include restricted stock units (RSUs).
Crown Castle Inc. is a real estate investment trust and provider of shared communications infrastructure in the United States headquartered in Houston, Texas. Crown Castle owns, operates, and leases approximately 40,000 cell towers across the US. This nationwide portfolio serves as the foundation of wireless connectivity that provides cities and communities access to essential data, technology, and wireless service, bringing information, ideas, innovations, and the connectivity of modern life to help people and businesses thrive.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The company owns communications towers across the United States along with a large fiber and small-cell network, structured as a real estate investment trust. Tower economics are compelling: a structure built once can host several carriers, and each added tenant contributes revenue with almost no incremental cost, under long leases with fixed escalators. The fiber and small-cell segment has consumed capital with weaker returns and drawn activist pressure. Carrier network spending sets leasing activity. Headquarters are in Houston.
Sources: sec.gov · en.wikipedia.org
Equity comp at Crown Castle
- Crown Castle's executive change-in-control protection is double-trigger: a change in control alone does not accelerate RSUs. Acceleration requires a 'Qualifying Termination Upon Change in Control,' meaning the equity holder must also be involuntarily terminated without cause, or resign for good reason, within two years after the deal closes. If that qualifying termination occurs during the change-in-control period, RSUs vest immediately (performance-based RSUs vest at target, with any amount above target continuing to vest). If a qualifying termination happens outside that window, RSUs continue vesting on schedule for up to two years, with performance-based RSUs still subject to meeting their performance goals.
- RSUs use double-trigger vesting. Two things must both happen before the shares are yours: (1) the normal time-based vesting completes, and (2) the company has a liquidity event (an IPO or an acquisition). Until both happen, you do not yet own the shares and you do not owe tax on them.
Researched 2026-08-21.
OptionsAhoy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Crown Castle.
If you hold vested Crown Castle (CCI) shares and need a set amount of cash by a date (a house down payment, tuition, a sabbatical, a business buy-in), the question is which lots to sell and in which tax years to keep the most after tax. This calculator builds the minimum-tax sell schedule across your lots, accounting for federal long-term capital gains, the net investment income tax, and your state.
Example: a 5,000-share CCI position at $66.44 is worth $332,200. Say you need $150,000 of it for a house down payment by next spring. Selling enough shares all in one tax year can push the gain into the higher long-term capital-gains bracket and trigger the 3.8% net investment income tax; spreading the sale across two tax years often nets more. The calculator above finds the minimum-tax sell schedule across your specific lots, basis, goal, and date.
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Crown Castle equity questions
- How much CCI stock do I sell to fund a goal without overpaying tax?
- It depends on your cost basis, your target amount and date, and how the sale spreads across tax years. Selling vested CCI shares triggers long-term capital-gains tax, plus the 3.8% net investment income tax and state tax above certain income, and bunching a large sale into one year can push the gain into a higher bracket. The calculator above builds the minimum-tax sell schedule across your lots to net your target amount by your date.
- Does Crown Castle grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Crown Castle typically takes the form of restricted stock units (RSUs). Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
- Do Crown Castle RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- Yes. Crown Castle restricted stock units (RSUs) vest only when two things both happen: the time-based schedule completes, and the company has a liquidity event such as an initial public offering (IPO) or an acquisition. Until both occur you do not own the shares and owe no tax on them.
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