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Enova on Business Loan Originations Growth: ‘Like Running Downhill’
July 28, 2025Enova originated $1.2B in small business loans in Q2 2025, marking the fourth time they’ve exceeded $1B. When asked how that segment of their business has continued to perform so consistently, Enova CEO David Fisher said that small businesses had a couple of rock solid quarters in a row.
“It’s almost like running downhill,” Fisher said. “It’s not like you’re trying that hard. It just kind of happens. Credit has been incredibly stable…and when you have rock solid credit and you’re in a very strong competitive position, yes, generating origination growth is like I said, kind of like running downhill. It’s not like we’re trying super hard to do it. We just let the business perform the way it was performing.”
Later on Fisher added that “the competitive dynamics on the small business side are more stable. There’s fewer players. We know who they are. Brand matters more. And so that super strong position we have in SMB, I think helps with the stability a bit.”
In regards to how they’ve evolved their approach to TV advertising, Fisher said:
“So ten years ago, we were running a lot of national TV. Now it’s almost all digital TV, where you can almost target city by city and certainly state by state and even different types of groups within those markets. So that all plays into what we do super well because we develop models ‘that the more data focused that we’re looking at, the easier it is for us.’ So TV was never our favorite thing, but if we can target specific states, specific groups, specific times of days, figuring out which types of programming work the best, that’s really amazing for us to be able to plug that all into our algorithms and become more and more efficient with marketing.”
Lastly, Fisher is retiring as CEO to become Executive Chairman effective January 1, 2026. During the call Fisher said that with the business on super stable footing, that it was simply the right time. CFO Steve Cunningham will take over the CEO position.
Enova: SMB Loan Demand and Performance Remains Normal
April 29, 2025Enova originated $1.2B in small business loans in Q1, a 27% increase year-over-year.
Despite noise in the media about economic disruptions, Enova CEO David Fisher said during the earnings call that “We are monitoring both demand and portfolio performance even more closely than normal and continue to see the level of demand we would expect while payment performance remains in line or better than our expectations.”
When asked if the company saw a spike in applications in relation to businesses possibly stocking up on inventory ahead of the new tariff policy, Fisher said they hadn’t seen any spike and that demand has mainly tracked typical seasonal patterns.
The company emphasized more than once that if anything were to change, the quick duration of its small business loans would allow it to react and make adjustments very quickly. As always, Enova reiterated that it does not have much competition in the market, hadn’t seen any new competitive threats in the first quarter, and doesn’t expect to see any changes on the competitive side for the rest of the year.
Enova: Record Q4 originations with little competition in sight
February 5, 2025
Enova originated $1.1B in small busines loans in Q4 2024. And it’s a wide open market, according to the company. “We’ve not seen kind of a sustained competitive push on either the consumer or small business side in a very, very long time,” said Enova CEO David Fisher during the quarterly earnings call. “And again, I think evidenced by our ability to take really significant volume in Q4 shows that to be the case.”
Fisher added that “you do see people kind of poking in and out” of the market “but they tend to be small and they tend to be fleeting.”
The economy is also playing into their success.
“On the small business side, I would say if anything, we feel better about the health of small businesses across the country,” Fisher said. “I think they’ve had one more year to build strength, kind of following the pandemic and following the high inflationary years of 2022, early 2023. And so we’re feeling also very good about the general health of small businesses.”
Fisher cited a joint report it prepared with Ocrolus this past November in which a survey found “that small businesses feel increasingly optimistic about future growth as over 90% of small business owners are expecting moderate to significant growth over the next six months.” It also showed “a meaningful shift in where small businesses are first seeking capital as nearly 75% of small business owners reported bypassing traditional banks in favor of alternative lenders like Enova.”
Charge-offs have been on a downward trend for Enova as well and the company feels good about how diversified its portfolio is.
Enova Surpasses $1 Billion in SMB Loans in a Single Quarter For First Time
October 23, 2024Enova’s small business loan arm had a huge 3rd quarter.
“Notably, for the first time in our history, we originated over $1 billion in small business loans, up 33% year-over-year and 14% sequentially,” said Enova CEO David Fisher during the company’s earning call. “The main drivers of this growth are consumer spending and confidence from small business owners in this current economy.”
Additionally, he said:
As discussed on our first quarter call, we identified opportunities within our SMB business that we believe would support continued strong growth with improved unit economics. We continue to see the benefits of this strategy in the third quarter as small business originations growth was strong, small business revenue yield continued to move higher sequentially and the small business quarterly net charge-off ratio remained on the low end of our expected range. Expectations for our future credit performance remained stable as the consolidated consumer and small business fair-value premiums were all largely unchanged from last quarter.
Enova Originated $918M in Small Business Loans in Q2
July 29, 2024Enova remains optimistic about the economy and its borrowers, according to its latest quarterly earnings report.
“Recently, there’s been significant talk from both pundits and our competitors about an uncertain macro environment, but our Q2 performance as well as internal and external data confirmed that both our SMB and consumer customers remain on solid footing as our customers continue to benefit from job growth, low unemployment rates, easing inflation, and rising real wages,” said CEO David Fisher during the earnings call.
SMB loan originations of $918M were down slightly from Q1 but up 29% year-over-year.
“I think competitively, I would say there’s very little has changed,” Fisher said. “There haven’t been new entrants in the space. We haven’t seen any of our competitors get particularly more aggressive. There’s always a little bit of ebb and flows but certainly no trends. As I mentioned in my comments, certainly over the last couple of quarters, we’ve heard some lack of confidence I think from some of the other players in the space and it’s probably holding them back a bit when I think we’re seeing somewhat of the opposite. … And as we talked about, we think our customers are in a really, really good place. Job growth has remained good. Wages continue to rise. Inflation is coming down. Enova is a very beneficial place for both consumers and small businesses.”
Enova Has Big Q1, Sees Strong SMB Market
May 1, 2024Enova originated $960M in small business loans in Q1 2024, setting what is believed to be a new quarterly record. During the earnings call, Enova CEO David Fisher said that confidence in the economy and consumer spending was driving the SMB market forward.
“Our small businesses aren’t concerned about inflation,” Fisher said. “Strong consumer spending and the ability to increase prices are offsetting that. And we are seeing stable performance in that portfolio.”
In fact, the company expects yield on the SMB side of its business to increase in the short term.
“We’ve just shifted more towards kind of the middle to upper end of our APR range for the SMB products,” said Fisher. “And so with those higher APRs from slightly higher defaults – so you’ll see over the next few quarters just slightly elevated compared to historic level default rates in the SMB business and eventually slightly higher net charge-offs as a percentage of ARR. But what will come along with that, is higher yields and higher revenue. And so the ROEs on those products, those originations are looking really, really good.”
Enova also expressed the value it’s gotten out of marketing its products on TV.
“We’ve gotten heavier and heavier in TV,” Fisher said. “That’s been an area of success for us for sure relative to say five to seven years ago, and I think certainly relative to our competitors. And then digital I think has improved for us in ways that we probably wouldn’t have guessed a few years ago. And a lot of that growth I think is kind of taking share away from leads. I think leads has continued to shrink as the share of the total, which was fine, we’d like to control our own destiny.”
Enova Has Record Quarter for SMB Lending
January 31, 2024Enova logged its biggest quarter ever for small business loan originations, hitting $930M in Q4.
“Strong demand and solid credit performance enabled us to be more aggressive with our marketing, particularly in our SMB business,” said Enova CEO David Fisher during the earnings call. The company’s net charge-off ratio was also down, dropping from 5.5% in Q3 to 4.8% in Q4.
Enova has consistently considered itself to be in a league of its own on the small business lending front, citing most recently that it continues to benefit from a “strong brand presence” and “low levels of competition.”
“Our results are driven by the strength of our talented team, diversified product offerings and world-class machine learning, analytics and technology,” said Fisher during the call. “A combination of these strengths has enabled us to successfully manage the uncertain macroeconomic environment we faced in 2023, growing originations while managing credit to acceptable levels that generate unit economics above our targets. Our unwavering commitment to this balanced approach to growth has allowed us to take share from our competitors in both our consumer and SMB business while effectively managing risk.”
Enova Discussed Its Q3 Performance, Its View on the Small Business Loan Market
October 24, 2023Enova originated $783M in small business loans in Q3, which is up from $770M in Q1 and $712M in Q2. Overall company profitability was slightly down but mainly because they increased marketing spend later in the quarter in which there was not enough time to also experience the corresponding revenue increase.
Enova also recorded some slightly higher-than-expected chargeoffs that came from their 2nd half 2022 smb loan vintages.
“As you would expect, our underwriting models adjusted based on this data and vintages since January of this year are back in line with our expectations,” said Enova CEO David Fisher on the earnings call. “But since there is a 9 to 12-month emergence period for charge-offs in our small business products, charge-offs from those second half 2022 vintages were at their peak in Q3 of this year.”
Given the current interest rate environment, the call drew out some insightful information about the small business loan market. Bullet points below:
- “…while prime and super prime borrowers are facing higher interest expense due to the increase in the Fed funds rate, we have not raised our pricing.” – Fisher
- “I think the competitive environment is still pretty benign, like we’ve been talking about for a while. Nothing new on the small business side. I think we’ve seen, as we talked about, competitors struggle with liquidity, also a couple move more towards the prime space in SMB.” – Fisher
- “On the small business side, still a lot coming through the wholesale channel through ISOs, but we continue to grow our direct channel. It’s a very fast-growing channel for us” – Fisher
- “So if the consumer falls on their face, small businesses are in big trouble. We saw that during COVID, but if the consumer is still spending and doing well, the small businesses tend to be a big beneficiary of that incremental spend.” – Fisher
- “While there’s a lot of uncertainty in the economy today, both internal and external data lead us to believe that both our consumer and small business customers are navigating it well.” – Fisher
- “Inflation continues to moderate, while the labor market and wage growth continue to be very strong.” – Fisher
- “To be clear, Enova overall is in great shape, and we’re feeling good about Q4 and next year.” – Fisher
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