authID Inc. (AUID) NSO Exercise Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · AUIDPlan your authID Inc. NSO exercise (federal, state, FICA) and compare sell-vs-hold for long-term capital gains.
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Hold strategy
Best after-tax payout — at year 1
$199,080
Sell + invest wins by $20,783 over Hold 1 yr.
Estimates only. Not financial advice.
Sell + invest
Best payout| Bargain element (sale − strike) | $350,000 |
| Federal | |
| State | |
| Medicare | −$5,075 |
| Additional Medicare | −$3,150 |
| Market gain over 1 yr at 10.0% | $18,573 |
| LTCG on diversified gain (fed + state + NIIT) | −$5,219 |
| Net at year 1 | $199,080 |
Sell every share immediately; invest the after-tax cash at the market return for 1 yr, then liquidate. Diversified — no single-stock concentration risk.
Exercise + hold 1 yr
| Sale proceeds (year 1) | |
| LTCG tax (federal + state + NIIT) | $0 |
| Net at year 1 | $178,297 |
Sold 2,678 shares at exercise to cover strike + tax; 2,322 shares held 1 yr for LTCG.
Social Security + Medicare are payroll taxes (collectively called FICA) — they apply because you're exercising as a current employee.
Both columns are stated in year-1 dollars: sell-now proceeds compound at the market return and pay LTCG on the gain at year 1; any cash paid out of pocket on the hold side carries the same opportunity cost.
Net at year N — by hold period
Estimates only. Excludes AMT (NSOs do not trigger AMT), state-AMT, multi-state moves, and disqualifying-disposition edge cases. Not financial advice.
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About authID Inc.
authID Inc. (AUID) is a public Cybersecurity company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Denver, CO. IPO'd Jun 14, 2021.
Last close: $0.41 per share (as of 2026-09-04).
Nasdaq; biometric identity verification.
Equity grants at authID Inc. typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Thomas Szoke founded authID in 2011, originally as Ipsidy, and the company rebranded to authID with a Nasdaq uplisting (ticker: AUID) in 2021. Based in Denver, Colorado, authID sells a cloud biometric identity verification and authentication platform, using facial recognition to confirm a person matches a government ID (a process it calls "Proof") and to authenticate logins without passwords ("Verified"). In August 2026 the company reported Q2 results alongside a board review of "strategic and financing alternatives," including a possible sale or merger, while continuing to onboard customers such as a large retailer covering over 100,000 workforce members.
Sources: sec.gov · authid.ai · nasdaq.com
Equity comp at authID Inc.
- authID Inc. is already a Nasdaq-listed company (ticker AUID), not a pre-IPO private company; its July 2026 Form S-1 is a resale registration statement tied to an April 2026 warrant and debenture private placement, not an IPO registration. Because the stock already trades publicly, the classic pre-IPO double-trigger RSU structure (service-based vesting plus a separate liquidity-event trigger such as an IPO) does not clearly apply, and no plan document confirms a double-trigger design for broad-based employee RSU grants. Separately, named executives (including the CEO and CTO) have individual Executive Retention Agreements: if their employment ends involuntarily in connection with a change of control, 100% of their outstanding equity awards (options, restricted stock, RSUs, stock appreciation rights) accelerate, and the post-termination option exercise window extends to one year (or the award's remaining term, if shorter). This is an executive-level change-of-control provision, not the standard vesting rule for rank-and-file equity grants.
Researched 2026-07-25.
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Use this calculator to estimate your authID Inc. (AUID) NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA), then compare selling now versus holding through the long-term capital gains threshold. Inputs are yours: grant terms, current price, your income, your state.
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authID Inc. equity questions
- How is a authID Inc. NSO exercise taxed?
- Exercising a non-qualified stock option (NSO) creates ordinary income on the bargain element (the price on the day you exercise minus your strike), subject to federal income tax, state income tax, and FICA. The calculator above computes that tax for your authID Inc. grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does authID Inc. grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at authID 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.
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