FreeCast, Inc. (CAST) Post-Termination ISO Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · CASTLeft FreeCast, Inc. with vested ISOs? Most plans give you 90 days to exercise or forfeit. See your deadline, the AMT cost of exercising, and the share count that maximizes after-tax value.
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Exercise all 10,000
With 10%/yr expected growth over the 3-yr hold, every share's expected after-tax gain exceeds its marginal AMT cost. Net value: $171,946 at horizon.
Net after-tax value vs. shares exercised
Each point is the expected after-tax NPV at your hold horizon if you exercise that many shares now and let the rest expire.
Year-by-year tax breakdown
You pay the higher of Regular tax and Tentative AMT per jurisdiction, then subtract Credit recovered. The result is Net tax. Hover any number for the bracket-by-bracket breakdown.
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Federal AMT credit
Earned
$134,654
Recovered
$29,764
Remaining
$104,890
The AMT credit only recovers in years where regular tax exceeds AMT — typically a year with no ISO exercise. It carries forward indefinitely (Form 8801) and applies in any future tax year where regular tax exceeds AMT.
Estimates only. Excludes disqualifying dispositions, NSOs, multi-state moves, and AMT preferences other than ISO bargain elements. Long-term capital gains tax assumes a qualifying disposition (ISO held ≥1 yr from exercise and ≥2 yr from grant); state LTCG follows ordinary brackets except where the state grants preferential treatment (HI, ND, SC, WI, AR, NM) or has a dedicated LTCG-only tax (WA). Assumes you are within the $100K ISO limit (any portion of an annual ISO grant whose FMV at grant exceeds $100K is treated as NSO from the start, §422(d)). State AMT figures are 2025 (next-year values published in late 2026). Not financial advice.
QSBS note. If your shares qualify (typically pre-IPO C-corp grants held 5+ years), a federal rule lets you exclude up to $10M of gain on a future sale from federal tax. That single rule shifts exercise-timing math more than AMT does. (This is §1202 “qualified small-business stock”.) Modeled in beta, not here.
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About FreeCast, Inc.
FreeCast, Inc. (CAST) is a public Consumer Internet company, incorporated in Florida and headquartered in Orlando, FL. IPO'd Mar 10, 2026.
Last close: $1.39 per share (as of 2026-09-03).
Nasdaq; streaming TV aggregator.
Equity grants at FreeCast, Inc. typically include incentive stock options (ISOs) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs).
FreeCast, Inc. is an American digital media distribution company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. The company operates as an aggregation platform that helps users connect and manage their streaming subscriptions in one place and provides access to internet-delivered streaming channels, free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels, and over-the-air broadcast television through a unified interface.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SmartGuide, FreeCast's streaming aggregator, indexes live and on-demand content across thousands of sources and points viewers to the underlying app or channel rather than hosting content itself. William A. Mobley Jr. incorporated the Florida company on June 21, 2011 and remains its CEO and board chairman; FreeCast licenses the platform to broadband and mobile carriers, device makers, and hospitality operators. It completed a direct listing (registering existing shareholders' shares for public resale rather than selling new stock) on the Nasdaq Global Market under ticker CAST, and began trading March 10, 2026.
Sources: sec.gov · renaissancecapital.com · tradingview.com
Equity comp at FreeCast, Inc.
- FreeCast's public filings describe a 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (adopted June 25, 2021, expiring June 25, 2031) under which the company grants incentive stock options (ISOs, tax-advantaged options for employees) and non-qualified stock options (NSOs, options without that tax treatment, open to consultants and directors too). As of the company's most recent S-1, roughly 8 million options were outstanding at various strike prices. Public filings reviewed do not describe restricted stock units (RSUs, stock grants that vest into shares rather than being purchased), so no RSU vesting or double-trigger (a change-of-control clause requiring both a deal closing and a job loss before shares vest) terms could be confirmed. Treat this as an options-centric, not RSU-centric, equity program until a proxy statement documents otherwise.
Researched 2026-07-22.
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If you have left FreeCast, Inc. (CAST) with vested incentive stock options (ISOs), most stock plans give you 90 days from your departure date to exercise or forfeit them. Exercising everything at once concentrates the AMT bargain element into a single tax year. This calculator computes your window deadline from your departure date, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) cost of a full exercise at the current trading price, and the partial-exercise share count that maximizes expected after-tax value.
Example: leaving FreeCast, Inc. (CAST) with 5,000 vested ISOs at a $1 strike, with the last close at $1.39, exercising all of them inside the 90-day window puts a $1,950 bargain element into one tax year. Above the 2026 federal AMT exemption ($88,100 single, $137,000 married joint), the 28% AMT rate adds roughly $546 on top of regular tax before any state AMT (CA, CO, CT, MN). Exercising fewer shares lowers that bill at the cost of forfeiting the rest; the calculator above finds the count that maximizes expected after-tax value for your exact figures.
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FreeCast, Inc. equity questions
- I left FreeCast, Inc.. How long do I have to exercise my ISOs?
- Most stock plans give you 90 days from your departure date to exercise vested incentive stock options (ISOs); unexercised options are forfeited when the window closes. Tax law is slightly wider: ISO treatment requires you to have been an employee within 3 months of exercise (Internal Revenue Code Section 422(a)(2)), so options exercised under an employer-extended window are taxed as non-qualified stock options (NSOs). Check your grant agreement for FreeCast, Inc.'s exact terms. The calculator above computes your deadline from your departure date, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) cost of exercising, and the share count that maximizes after-tax value.
- Does FreeCast, Inc. grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at FreeCast, Inc. 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.
- When did the FreeCast, Inc. IPO lockup expire?
- FreeCast, Inc. (CAST) went public on March 10, 2026. The standard post-IPO lockup runs 180 days, so employee and insider shares generally became sellable around September 6, 2026. Confirm against your own grant paperwork, since some lockups release early or in stages.
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