Five Star Bank (CA): SBA Lending Record

What SBA's own loan files show about Five Star Bank (CA) as an SBA lender, and how a lender's record bears on a feasibility study.

Five Star Bank (CA): loans and programs

1,915 approved loans, $542.0 million gross, tie to Five Star Bank (CA) across FY2017 to FY2026. Five Star Bank (CA) does not guarantee these 1,915 loans; SBA does. The figures for Five Star Bank (CA) are loan records only. Program split at Five Star Bank (CA): 1,915 for 7(a), 0 for 504. CA is the lender state SBA records for Five Star Bank (CA). These 1,915 loans are ones that SBA shows Five Star Bank (CA) holding, now or before.

Where the loans of Five Star Bank (CA) sit

1,635 of Five Star Bank (CA)'s 1,915 loans sit outside the classes tracked on this site. Of the classes followed, Five Star Bank (CA) stands thus: Fitness center (56), Beauty salon (35), Limited-service restaurant (31), Medical office (physicians) (26), Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) (23), Dental office (19), Rehabilitation and therapy clinic (16), Full-service restaurant (14). The smallest followed class is Grocery store, at 6. A sponsor planning Fitness center can look at 56 loans on the record of Five Star Bank (CA). Beauty salon follows with 35 loans at Five Star Bank (CA). In Limited-service restaurant, Five Star Bank (CA) shows 31 loans. Texas ranks second among states for Five Star Bank (CA), at 168 loans. Geography for Five Star Bank (CA) follows this order: California (519), Texas (168), Florida (159), New York (113), Colorado (67), Illinois (64), Georgia (57), New Jersey (57), Pennsylvania (55). The state list ends with Montana, 5 loans. CA is where SBA places the lender; California holds the most loans, 519.

Cancellation and charge-off floors for Five Star Bank (CA)

The cancellation floor for Five Star Bank (CA) is 7.9% on FY2017 to FY2024 approvals. At Five Star Bank (CA), the upper bound is held back, as Loan Analytics needs 30 loans in a group before printing a rate, and no number stands in its place and it is not zero. These are minimum rates for Five Star Bank (CA), and so any later write-offs within the cohort can only raise it. Five Star Bank (CA) shows 11.1% charged off to date as a floor, for FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements totalling 1,373. Charged off within five years of approval, Five Star Bank (CA) shows 6.7%.

The Five Star Bank (CA) record and a feasibility study

Fitness center at Five Star Bank (CA) begins with a demand test. A study of Beauty salon next tests cost; Five Star Bank (CA) shows 35 loans there. The coverage of debt service is third, and $542.0 million across 1,915 loans at Five Star Bank (CA) does not settle it for a borrower. The appraisal ends the list, and 31 loans in Limited-service restaurant at Five Star Bank (CA) cannot stand in for it. An applicant in California can look at 519 loans in the Five Star Bank (CA) record, and one in Texas, 168. Five Star Bank (CA) alone decides what it asks for. No figure promises approval, and Five Star Bank (CA) sets its own terms.

SBA loans held by Five Star Bank (CA)

SBA guarantees these loans; the lender does not. The lender's name and every figure come from the U.S. Small Business Administration's public 7(a) and 504 FOIA file (data.sba.gov).

7(a) lender is the bank or lender the loan is currently assigned to (or last held it), as SBA records it; 504 lender is the Certified Development Company (CDC). 504 third-party (first-lien) lenders are free text with no identifier and are not credited.

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY20261,915
Gross dollars approved$542.0 million
SBA 7(a) loans1,915
SBA 504 loans0

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)7.9%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)11.1%
Charged off within five years of approval6.7%
Loans in that cohort1,373

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes1,635
Fitness center56
Beauty salon35
Limited-service restaurant31
Medical office (physicians)26
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)23
Dental office19
Rehabilitation and therapy clinic16
Full-service restaurant14
Coffee shop and snack bar10
Data center9
Veterinary clinic7
Grocery store6

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Loans by project state

States with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; Loan Analytics lender cell LP-fdic-35361.

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