Robinhood Markets (HOOD) Post-Termination ISO Calculator

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Left Robinhood Markets 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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Recommended exercise quantity

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.

$0$43K$86K$129K$172K02,5005,0007,50010,000
Recommended (10,000)Full exercise (10,000)

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.

110,000
20
30

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 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: $92.23 per share (as of 2026-06-12).

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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If you have left Robinhood Markets (HOOD) 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 Robinhood Markets (HOOD) with 5,000 vested ISOs at a $27.67 strike, with the last close at $92.23, exercising all of them inside the 90-day window puts a $322,800 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 $90,384 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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Robinhood Markets equity questions

I left Robinhood Markets. 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 Robinhood Markets'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 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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