Reddit (RDDT) Protective Put Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · RDDTPrice a protective put or zero-cost collar on Reddit. Annual cost, max loss, upside cap, tax treatment, auto-filled from current RDDT option chain.
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Reddit (RDDT) is a public Consumer Internet company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. IPO'd Mar 21, 2024.
Last close: $175.39 per share (as of 2026-06-16).
Equity grants at Reddit typically include incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down by other members. Posts are organized by subject into user-created boards called "subreddits". Submissions with more upvotes appear towards the top of their subreddit and, if they receive enough upvotes, ultimately on the site's front page. Reddit administrators moderate the communities. Moderation is also conducted by subreddit-specific moderators, who are unpaid volunteers. It is operated by Reddit, Inc., based in San Francisco.
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Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian launched Reddit from Y Combinator's inaugural 2005 batch, with Aaron Swartz joining months later via the Infogami merger. Conde Nast bought the site in 2006 for roughly $10-20M, then parent Advance Publications spun it back out as an independent subsidiary in 2011. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company runs community-driven discussion forums and licenses its conversation archive to Google and OpenAI for AI training. Reddit went public on NYSE in March 2024 under ticker RDDT. Daily active uniques hit 121.4M and weekly actives reached 471M by 2025.
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Equity comp at Reddit
- 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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A protective put caps your downside on the RDDT position at a chosen floor; a zero-cost collar pays for that floor by capping the upside. This calculator prices both structures off the current RDDT option chain, with annual cost, max loss, and tax-treatment notes.
Example: a 5,000-share RDDT position at $175.39 is worth $876,950. A 1-year 30%-OTM put on that position typically runs 2-4% of position value per year (about $17,539 to $35,078) before any premium offset from a short call. The calculator prices both structures off RDDT's current option chain so you see the actual cost for your chosen floor, tenor, and cap.
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Reddit equity questions
- How much does it cost to hedge RDDT stock?
- The cost of a protective put depends on how far below the current price you set the floor, how long the protection lasts, and RDDT's option-implied volatility. A zero-cost collar lowers that cost by selling away some upside. The calculator above prices both structures off the current RDDT option chain and shows the annual cost, maximum loss, and tax treatment.
- Does Reddit grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at Reddit 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 Reddit RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- No. Reddit 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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