CrowdStrike (CRWD) NSO Exercise Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · CRWDPlan your CrowdStrike NSO exercise (federal, state, FICA) and compare sell-vs-hold for long-term capital gains.
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Your grant
Tax inputs
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.
You calculated one NSO decision. The beta plans NSOs alongside RSUs and ISOs in a single multi-year tax plan.
Request beta access →About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike (CRWD) is a public Cybersecurity company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Austin, TX. IPO'd Jun 12, 2019.
Last close: $679.49 per share (as of 2026-06-16).
Equity grants at CrowdStrike typically include non-qualified stock options (NSOs) and restricted stock units (RSUs).
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. The company was co-founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston. Kurtz serves as the CEO. CrowdStrike went public on the Nasdaq in 2019 and joined the S&P 500 index in 2024.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston, CrowdStrike built Falcon, a cloud-native endpoint protection platform that uses a lightweight agent for EDR, XDR, identity protection, cloud security, and the Charlotte AI assistant. The company went public on NASDAQ as CRWD in June 2019 at $34 and now operates from Austin, Texas. A faulty Falcon channel file update on July 19, 2024 crashed roughly 8.5 million Windows machines globally, triggering the largest IT outage in history. CrowdStrike recovered, joined the S&P 500, and crossed $5 billion in ARR during fiscal 2026.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org
Equity comp at CrowdStrike
- 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.
OptionsAhoy is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CrowdStrike.
Use this calculator to estimate your CrowdStrike (CRWD) 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.
Example: at CrowdStrike (CRWD)'s last close of $679.49, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $203.85 strike creates a $2,378,200 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $642,114 and $1,070,190 depending on your bracket and state. The calculator above computes the exact figure for your situation and compares selling now vs. holding through the long-term capital-gains threshold.
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CrowdStrike equity questions
- How is a CrowdStrike 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 CrowdStrike grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does CrowdStrike grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at CrowdStrike typically takes the form of non-qualified stock options (NSOs) and restricted stock units (RSUs). Restricted stock units are taxed as ordinary income when they vest.
- Do CrowdStrike RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- No. CrowdStrike 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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