Suzanne Received 20 ISOs (Each Option Gives Her the Right

question 39

Essay

Suzanne received 20 ISOs (each option gives her the right to purchase 20 shares of stock for $12 per share) at the time she started working when the stock price was $13 per share. Three years later, when the share price was $23 per share, she exercised all of her options. If Suzanne holds the shares for ten additional months and sells them when the market price is $30, how much gain will Suzanne recognize on the sale and how much tax will she pay assuming her marginal tax rate is 35 percent?

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Definitions:

Symmetry

A property of shapes or designs where one half is a mirror image of the other half.

Bimodal

Describing a distribution that has two different modes or peaks in its frequency of occurrence.

Frequency

The number of times an event occurs within a given data set.

Skewed

Skewed refers to a distribution that is asymmetrical, where data points are more concentrated on one side of the scale, leading to a long tail on the opposite side.