Robinhood Markets (HOOD) NSO Exercise Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · HOODPlan your Robinhood Markets 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 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: $96.71 per share (as of 2026-06-17).
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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Use this calculator to estimate your Robinhood Markets (HOOD) 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 Robinhood Markets (HOOD)'s last close of $96.71, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $29.01 strike creates a $338,500 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $91,395 and $152,325 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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Robinhood Markets equity questions
- How is a Robinhood Markets 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 Robinhood Markets grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- 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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