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The secondary market for surplus corporate assets is drawing fresh attention as elevated borrowing costs push companies to shed idle inventory rather than carry it on stretched balance sheets.
Liquidity Services, the online marketplace for surplus goods and industrial assets, has projected fourth-quarter fiscal year 2026 GAAP earnings per share in a range of $0.30 to $0.39 and set a target of $2 billion in annual gross merchandise volume.
A volume milestone in context The $2 billion gross merchandise volume target is the figure management has chosen to anchor its public ambitions around.
Surplus asset markets tend to behave counter-cyclically: when the capex cycle turns down and balance sheet discipline tightens, sellers arrive in greater numbers, and the volumes flowing through secondary platforms often rise with them.
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