The benchmark for residual value in real markets
Residual value is one of the most material inputs in capital, risk, and recovery decisions. Yet for most asset classes, it is still estimated using outdated studies, one-off opinions, or assumptions that are difficult to defend.
Buckstop Residual Value Indexes exist to fix that.
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Residual Value Index: The Data Behind
Asset Exit Value
Buckstop Residual Value Index tracks observed market outcomes
for assets as they age, degrade, and exit service.
Built on real market signals
The result is a market-anchored reference point teams can use
consistently across underwriting, financing, recovery, and portfolio decisions.
Residual value index explained
Without a benchmark, residual value becomes subjective, and it leads to conservative pricing, capital lock-up, and avoidable losses.
Our proprietary indexes ground residual values in the market reality.
Built on a global database of real transactions
Buckstop Indexes are constructed from
Real resale and liquidation transactions- Recycling and scrap pricing outcomes
- Asset-level attributes such as manufacturer, age, and configuration
- Geographic and regulatory context where value changes materially
They are updated continuously as markets move, not published once and forgotten. This makes the index usable for live decisions, not just retrospective analysis.
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One index for each asset class.
Multiple decision contexts.
The core residual value index supports different
decisions across an ecosystem.
Insurers & risk teams
- Size bonds, limits, and premiums with defensible benchmarks
- Reduce over-bonding and unnecessary capital lock-up
- Support claims recovery and subrogation with transaction-backed pricing
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Lenders & structured finance teams
- Stress-test downside exposure across exit and default scenarios
- Validate recovery assumptions used in financing models
- Protect IRR from mispriced end-of-life and decommissioning risk
Recyclers & resellers operators
- Size bonds, limits, and premiums with defensible benchmarks
- Reduce over-bonding and unnecessary capital lock-up
- Support claims recovery and subrogation with transaction-backed pricing
Asset management teams
- Offset decommissioning costs through recoverable value
- Plan upgrades and retirements with timing and pricing clarity
- Understand recovery potential before capital or operational decisions are locked
Indexes power reporting,
not the other way around
The index is the foundation.
Buckstop layers automated reporting, scenario analysis, and workflow
on top of it so teams can apply the same benchmark across portfolios,
policies, and decisions without rebuilding analysis each time.
The intelligence scales but the assumptions stay consistent.
Available and upcoming indexes
- Solar Residual Value Index (live)
- Battery and energy storage systems (live)
- Data center (In Development)
Residual value should not depend on who you ask. It should depend on what the market shows.
Why teams trust Buckstop indexes
Residual value should not depend on who you ask.
It should depend on what the market shows.
- Grounded in real transactions, not surveys
- Updated as markets change
- Transparent methodology
- Defensible under scrutiny
- Confidence scoring
- Designed for repeat use, not one-off answers