HashiCorp NSO Exercise Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOPlan your HashiCorp 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 HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a public Dev Tools company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. IPO'd Dec 9, 2021.
Acquired by IBM Feb 2025; HCP delisted from Nasdaq.
Equity grants at HashiCorp typically include incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs).
HashiCorp, Inc. is an American software company and subsidiary of IBM based in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp provides tools and products that enable developers, operators and security professionals to provision, secure, run and connect cloud-computing infrastructure. It was founded in 2012 by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. The company name HashiCorp is a portmanteau of co-founder last name Hashimoto and Corporation.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar founded HashiCorp in 2012 after meeting as freshmen at the University of Washington. The company builds open-source infrastructure tooling used to provision, secure, and connect cloud environments, with Terraform (infrastructure-as-code) and Vault (secrets management) as its flagship products. IBM acquired HashiCorp on February 27, 2025 in an all-cash deal at $35 per share, totaling $6.4 billion, after regulatory clearance from the FTC and the UK's Competition and Markets Authority.
Sources: hashicorp.com · techcrunch.com · newsroom.ibm.com
Equity comp at HashiCorp
- IBM completed its acquisition of HashiCorp in June 2024 for approximately $6.4 billion ($35 per share). All outstanding HashiCorp equity converted to IBM cash consideration at closing. There is no longer a standalone HashiCorp equity position; former HashiCorp employees now receive IBM RSUs or cash under IBM's standard equity programs.
- 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.
Sources: ibm.com
Researched 2026-05-07.
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Use this calculator to estimate your HashiCorp 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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HashiCorp equity questions
- How is a HashiCorp 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 HashiCorp grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does HashiCorp grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at HashiCorp 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 HashiCorp RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- No. HashiCorp 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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