SBA lender · 7(a) program
Capital One
Capital One has approved 1,495 SBA loans worth $918.3M since FY2010 - the #113 SBA lender in the country by dollars approved. Everything below comes from the SBA’s own loan-level records.
National rank
#113
0.18% of all SBA dollars
Total approved
$918.3M
FY2010 onward
Loans
1,495
Median loan
$311,000
+73% vs national
Median rate
6.00%
-0.75 pts vs national
Charge-off rate
8.7%
784 resolved FY10-19 loans
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.
Reading the record
What Capital One’s numbers say
Capital One sits solidly inside the SBA lending field, having approved 1,495 loans for a gross total of $918.3M since fiscal 2010. Its median loan of $311,000 is substantially larger than the $180,000 national median, which usually signals a focus on real-estate-backed or acquisition deals rather than small working-capital notes.
The median initial note rate across its 7(a) approvals is 6.00%, 0.75 points below the national median of 6.75%. Rate medians drawn across fifteen years reflect the mix of loan sizes and vintages a lender wrote as much as its pricing posture - a lender that grew fastest during a high-rate stretch will look expensive here even if its spread was ordinary.
Of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status, 8.7% were charged off, 1.1 points above the national figure of 7.6%. Read that as a description of the credit box a lender chose, not as a verdict on it: lenders serving newer businesses and thinner files will always show higher losses than those writing large, collateralised acquisition loans.
Roughly 6% of its approvals went to businesses the SBA classified as new rather than existing, against 11% nationally.
Where Capital One lends
| State | Loans | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 439 | |
| New York | 337 | |
| Louisiana | 235 | |
| Virginia | 112 | |
| Maryland | 98 | |
| New Jersey | 79 | |
| Florida | 59 | |
| District of Columbia | 30 |
What it lends against
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.
Questions about Capital One
- How many SBA loans has Capital One approved?
- Capital One has approved 1,495 SBA loans totalling $918,289,300 in gross approvals from fiscal year 2010 through the most recent SBA data release. That places it #113 among all SBA lenders by dollars approved.
- What is the typical Capital One SBA loan size?
- The median gross approval is $311,000, with the middle 80% of loans falling between $51,000 and $1,573,300. The national median across all SBA lenders is $180,000.
- What interest rate does Capital One charge on SBA 7(a) loans?
- The median initial note rate on Capital One's 7(a) approvals is 6.00%, compared with a national median of 6.75%. This is a historical median across all approvals since FY2010, not a quote - SBA 7(a) rates are pegged to a base rate that moves, and your rate depends on loan size, term, and credit profile.
- What is Capital One's SBA loan charge-off rate?
- 8.7% of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status were charged off, against a national figure of 7.6%. A charge-off rate reflects the borrowers a lender chose to underwrite as much as anything else, and is not a measure of service quality.
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