VisionWave Holdings, Inc. (VWAV) Post-Termination ISO Calculator
Calculator · free · no signup · VWAVLeft VisionWave Holdings, 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 VisionWave Holdings, Inc.
VisionWave Holdings, Inc. (VWAV) is a public Cloud/SaaS company, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in West Hollywood, CA. IPO'd Jul 15, 2025.
Equity grants at VisionWave Holdings, Inc. typically include incentive stock options (ISOs), non-qualified stock options (NSOs), and restricted stock units (RSUs).
VisionWave Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: VWAV) builds AI-driven radar, RF sensing, and autonomous systems for defense and homeland security applications from its base in West Hollywood, California, with operations in the US, Israel, and the UAE. The company went public on July 15, 2025, via a SPAC merger with Bannix Acquisition Corp., beginning Nasdaq trading at an enterprise value of approximately $174 million. Its multi-patented Vision-RF platform converts radio-frequency signals into real-time video for aerial threat detection, underground imaging, and force protection across air, land, and maritime domains.
Sources: sec.gov
Equity comp at VisionWave Holdings, Inc.
- VisionWave's 2024 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan departs from standard time-only vesting in two respects. First, executive RSU terms vary by individual: the CEO's grant vests over 36 months, shorter than the four-year standard used by most public companies. Second, at least one executive (VP of M&A) received a split award where 150,000 shares vested immediately on the grant date and the remaining 350,000 vest upon achieving specific consolidated revenue milestones ($5M, $10M, $15M, and $17.5M). Performance-conditioned vesting tied to revenue thresholds is uncommon for public company RSU grants. The plan grants the committee broad single-trigger discretion upon a change of control to accelerate any award, cash it out, or require substitution by the acquirer, with no termination event required.
- 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.
- Vesting schedule: CEO RSUs vest over 36 months with no cliff disclosed; certain executive grants include immediate vesting on the grant date plus milestone-based tranches tied to consolidated revenue thresholds of $5M, $10M, $15M, and $17.5M.
Sources: contracts.justia.com · sec.gov
Researched 2026-07-11.
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If you have left VisionWave Holdings, Inc. (VWAV) 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.
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VisionWave Holdings, Inc. equity questions
- I left VisionWave Holdings, 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 VisionWave Holdings, 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 VisionWave Holdings, Inc. grant ISOs, NSOs, or RSUs?
- Equity compensation at VisionWave Holdings, Inc. 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.
- When did the VisionWave Holdings, Inc. IPO lockup expire?
- VisionWave Holdings, Inc. (VWAV) went public on July 15, 2025. The standard post-IPO lockup runs 180 days, so employee and insider shares generally became sellable around January 11, 2026. Confirm against your own grant paperwork, since some lockups release early or in stages.
- Do VisionWave Holdings, Inc. RSUs use double-trigger vesting?
- No. VisionWave Holdings, Inc. 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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