CYABRA, INC. (CYAB) NSO Exercise Calculator

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Plan your CYABRA, INC. NSO exercise (federal, state, FICA) and compare sell-vs-hold for long-term capital gains.

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Your grant

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Tax inputs

Hold strategy

1 yr
20%
20%
10.0%

Best after-tax payout — at year 1

$198,990

Sell + invest wins by $20,773 over Hold 1 yr.

Estimates only. Not financial advice.

Your NSO exercise pushes your top federal rate from 24% to 35%. Hover the Federal value below for the bracket-by-bracket slicing.

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%$18,564
LTCG on diversified gain (fed + state + NIIT)−$5,217
Net at year 1$198,990

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$178,216

Sold 2,679 shares at exercise to cover strike + tax; 2,321 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

Sell + investExercise + hold
$0$54K$108K$162K$215KYr 1Yr 2

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 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 estimate your CYABRA, INC. (CYAB) 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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CYABRA, INC. equity questions

How is a CYABRA, 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 CYABRA, INC. grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
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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