Free tool
Keep the checks, or take the cash?
The honest version of this question is arithmetic, not salesmanship: a declining stream of future checks against a lump sum today, both in today’s dollars. Drag the slider and watch where the answer flips.
Side by side
To see the comparison, select a basin and enter a recent royalty check above. The math runs in your browser — nothing you type is sent or stored.
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A hypothetical, not a forecast.
This tool exists to make a conversation smarter, not to replace one.
The projection assumes your wells follow an average decline curve for the basin at flat prices, with no new wells drilled. Real royalty checks move with commodity prices, operator downtime, post-production deductions, and new drilling — in both directions, sometimes dramatically. No one, including us, knows what your checks will actually total over twenty years.
The discount-rate slider is the honest heart of the tool. There is no single right rate — an institution with thousands of wells can afford a low one; a family with one county and real plans for the money usually shouldn’t use the institution’s number. Our approach page explains why that gap is the reason a deal can make sense for both sides — and why holding is sometimes the right call, which we’ll say out loud when it’s true. Nothing here is financial advice or an offer.
No pressure, ever
Want the same math run on your actual wells?
Most people who call us aren’t ready to sell. We’ll still tell you what you own, what it might be worth, and what we’d pay — then the next move is entirely yours.
No automated calls. No mailers with sight drafts. No follow-up unless you ask for it.
Rather talk to a person? (970) 444-7374or email hello@eldoradomp.com