Sell Robinhood Markets (HOOD) stock to fund a goal
Calculator · free · no signup · HOODNeed cash for a goal? Plan the minimum-tax schedule to sell your vested Robinhood Markets (HOOD) shares and net a target amount by a target date, across tax years.
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Inputs
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.
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 | $111,637 | $110,752 | $111,637 | $119,397 |
| Wealth @ target | $726,476 | $680,919 | $726,476 | $721,823 |
| Chance of shortfall | 2.5% | 0% | 2.5% | 4.8% |
Feasible
$400,051 net by 08/01/27
Total tax: $111,637 (federal $59,593, state $36,947, NIIT $15,097)
Schedule · Recommended
| Sale date | Shares | Tax | Net | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/30/26 | 173 | $14,974 | $15,410 | |
| 07/31/26 | 300 | $26,124 | $42,233 | |
| 08/31/26 | 300 | $26,281 | $69,157 | |
| 09/30/26 | 300 | $26,434 | $96,180 | |
| 10/31/26 | 300 | $26,594 | $123,305 | |
| 11/30/26 | 300 | $26,749 | $150,529 | |
| 12/31/26 | 300 | $26,910 | $177,857 | |
| 01/31/27 | 300 | $27,073 | $205,289 | |
| 02/28/27 | 300 | $27,221 | $232,814 | |
| 03/31/27 | 300 | $27,385 | $260,444 | |
| 04/30/27 | 300 | $27,546 | $288,176 | |
| 05/31/27 | 300 | $27,712 | $316,013 | |
| 06/30/27 | 300 | $27,875 | $343,953 | |
| 07/31/27 | 300 | $28,043 | $372,000 | |
| 08/01/27 | 300 | $28,052 | $400,051 |
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 3,627 shares worth $436,251 at the projected target-date price, invested for the next decision.
About Robinhood Markets
Robinhood Markets (HOOD) is a public Fintech company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. IPO'd Jul 29, 2021.
Last close: $88.16 per share (as of 2026-06-03).
Equity grants at Robinhood Markets typically include incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Robinhood Markets, Inc. is an American financial services company based in Menlo Park, California. It provides an electronic trading platform that facilitates trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, options, index options, futures contracts, event contracts on prediction markets, and cryptocurrency. It also offers cryptocurrency wallets, wealth management, credit cards and other banking services, some in partnership with banks insured by the FDIC, as well as a news website, Sherwood.News.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Founded in 2013 by Stanford physics and math alumni Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, Robinhood Markets pioneered commission-free retail brokerage from Menlo Park, California. The app now spans stocks, options, crypto, futures, the Robinhood Gold subscription tier, and a cashback credit card. After riding the 2021 GameStop saga to a July 2021 Nasdaq IPO at $38 under ticker HOOD, the firm closed its Bitstamp acquisition in 2024 to deepen crypto infrastructure. By Q1 2026 Robinhood held $333 billion in assets under custody, served 27.4 million funded customers, and posted $1.07 billion in quarterly revenue.
Sources: robinhood.com · en.wikipedia.org
Equity comp at Robinhood Markets
- RSUs use single-trigger vesting: shares become yours as each portion vests on schedule, and the value is taxed as ordinary income at that point. No IPO or acquisition is required.
Researched 2026-05-07.
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If you hold vested Robinhood Markets (HOOD) 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 HOOD position at $88.16 is worth $440,800. 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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Robinhood Markets equity questions
- How much HOOD 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 HOOD 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 Robinhood Markets grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Robinhood Markets typically takes the form of incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs). Incentive stock options can trigger the alternative minimum tax (AMT) when you exercise. Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
- Do Robinhood Markets RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- No. Robinhood Markets restricted stock units (RSUs) use single-trigger vesting: each tranche becomes yours as it vests on schedule, taxed as ordinary income at that point, with no liquidity event required.
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