Plan your Sysdig NSO exercise
Calculator · free · no signup · pre-IPOSysdig 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 Jul 30, 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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About Sysdig
Sysdig is a privately held Cybersecurity company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Last reported secondary-market price: $4.61 per share (as of 2026-07-30). Your own 409A may differ.
Cloud security.
Equity grants at Sysdig typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
Loris Degioanni, one of the co-creators of Wireshark, founded Sysdig in 2013 to bring deep system-call visibility to Linux containers and later extended the platform into cloud security. Today Sysdig is the primary commercial entity behind the open-source Falco runtime security project, and its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) detects threats in real time at the kernel level. The company raised $350 million in a Series G round in December 2021 at a $2.5 billion valuation; by 2025 it had reached $283 million in annual revenue.
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Sysdig 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 Sysdig's last reported price of $4.61, exercising 5,000 NSOs with a $1.38 strike creates a $16,150 bargain element, taxed as ordinary income on the day you exercise. Combined federal + state + FICA on that bargain typically lands between $4,361 and $7,268 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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Sysdig equity questions
- How is a Sysdig 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 Sysdig grant and compares selling the shares now against holding past the one-year mark for long-term capital-gains treatment.
- Does Sysdig grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Sysdig 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 Sysdig 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 Sysdig shares qualify turns on when you acquired them and the company's asset size at that time.
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