SBA loan outcome check · franchise brand · SBA data as of 30 September 2026

How have SBA loans to Super 8 franchisees turned out?

Of 213 loans approved in fiscal 2009 to 2018 (at least five years old), 4 (1.9%) were charged off by the lender, against 7.8% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years. Super 8 appears on 213 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2009 to 2018, $344.5 million in gross approvals. These are loans, not a rating.
Not financial, legal or franchise advice. This page reports what the SBA's loan file records for SBA-guaranteed loans. A charge-off rate is not a rating of a brand or an industry, it does not predict a new loan, and a franchisee's loan is not a measure of the franchisor. Read the franchise's disclosure document and talk to a lender or an adviser before you borrow.
Super 8Franchise brand · 213 loans
2%of seasoned loans charged off
  1. Super 8 appears on 213 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2009 to 2018, $344.5 million in gross approvals.
  2. Of 213 loans approved in fiscal 2009 to 2018 (at least five years old), 4 (1.9%) were charged off by the lender, against 7.8% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years.
  3. A charge-off is a loan the lender wrote off. It is not a statement about the borrower, the brand or the franchisor, and it does not predict how a new loan will turn out.
0%15%Fiscal 2014: 2 of 46 loans charged off (4.3%)Fiscal 2015: 1 of 47 loans charged off (2.1%)Fiscal 2016: 0 of 52 loans charged off (0.0%)Fiscal 2017: 0 of 48 loans charged off (0.0%)Fiscal 2018: 0 of 10 loans charged off (0.0%)20142015201620172018
share of this group's loans charged off, by approval year (years with 10+ loans)all 7(a) loans, same year

Every approval year

Approval yearLoansApprovedPaid in fullCharged offNot yet resolvedCharged-off share
FY20091$1.3 million100few loans
FY20121$1.2 million010few loans
FY20138$12.8 million701few loans
FY201446$75.6 million40244.3%
FY201547$72.2 million361102.1%
FY201652$83.5 million400120.0%
FY201748$79.4 million330150.0%
FY201810$18.4 million7030.0%

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA loan data as of 30 September 2026. SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans only, aggregated; no borrower or lender is shown. SBA open data.

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Compiled and checked by Vincent Wesley Couey (ORCID 0009-0005-6869-308X) from the SBA 7(a) FOIA loan data, as of 30 September 2026. Not an official source.

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