Plan your Skydio NSO exercise
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOSkydio is pre-IPO. Plan your NSO exercise tax (federal, state, FICA) at any expected valuation.
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Seeded from secondary-market data, as of Jun 10, 2026
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No bargain element. Current price is at or below the strike — no tax owed at exercise. Wait for the stock to appreciate past the strike before exercising.
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.
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Skydio is a privately held Hardware company, headquartered in San Mateo, CA.
Last reported secondary-market price: $8.55 per share (as of 2026-06-10). Your own 409A may differ.
Autonomous drones.
Equity grants at Skydio typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Skydio, Inc. is an American manufacturer of drones headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company manufactures drones for use in battlefield situation awareness, policing, and inspection. Their drones can complete fully autonomous missions with the use of a dock to automatically recharge.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Founded in 2014 by MIT alumni Adam Bry, Abe Bachrach, and Matt Donahoe (all Project Wing veterans), Skydio builds autonomous drones with self-flying obstacle avoidance from a San Mateo headquarters. The company exited consumer hardware in 2023 to concentrate on enterprise, public-sector, and defense customers around the X10 and tactical X10D platforms. Funding reached a $2.2B valuation via a $230M Series E in February 2023, later extended by $170M in late 2024 after China sanctioned Skydio over Taiwan sales and choked battery supply. March 2026 brought a record $52M U.S. Army order for nearly 3,000 X10D units, the largest single-vendor sUAS purchase in Army history, alongside deployments with Ukraine, Spain, Norway, AT&T, and U.S. utilities.
Sources: skydio.com · techcrunch.com · overtdefense.com
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Skydio NSO exercise creates ordinary income on the bargain element (federal, state, and FICA) at the price on the day you exercise. The calculator works at any valuation, so you can model your exercise cost at the current 409A FMV, an expected IPO price, or post-IPO scenarios.
Example: at Skydio's last reported price of $8.55, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $2.57 strike creates a $29,900 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $8,073 and $13,455 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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Skydio equity questions
- How is a Skydio 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 Skydio grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does Skydio grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Skydio 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.
- Are Skydio shares eligible for QSBS?
- They might be. Qualified small business stock (QSBS) under Internal Revenue Code Section 1202 can exclude federal tax on much of the gain when shares were acquired at original issuance from a C-corporation while its gross assets were under $50 million, and held at least five years. Whether your Skydio shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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