Monthly report
Florida Equipment Finance Report, May 2026
Lenders filed 9,156 new UCC financing statements for business equipment in Florida in May 2026, down 3% from the month before and down 5% on the same month a year earlier. John Deere Financial filed the most, 313. MCKENZIE CAPITAL LLC grew fastest, from 1 to 64. Agriculture was the largest identified equipment category with 559 filings.
New equipment filings
Month over month
Year over year
New equipment filings, last 12 months
Florida, businesses only
| 2025-06 | 9530 |
|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 10039 |
| 2025-08 | 9858 |
| 2025-09 | 9818 |
| 2025-10 | 10216 |
| 2025-11 | 14338 |
| 2025-12 | 14682 |
| 2026-01 | 8605 |
| 2026-02 | 8705 |
| 2026-03 | 9457 |
| 2026-04 | 9473 |
| 2026-05 | 9156 |
Top lenders
New filings in May 2026, change from the month before
- 1John Deere FinancialCaptive finance313 +5%
- 2Kubota CreditCaptive finance267 +8%
- 3Caterpillar FinancialCaptive finance147 +20%
- 4WEBBANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNEESBank124 +8%
- 5TD BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONBank94 +36%
- 6DLLIndependent88 -15%
- 7JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NABank81 -42%
- 8REGIONS BANK, AS COLLATERAL AGENTBank80 +105%
- 9SOUTHSTATE BANK, N.A.Bank73 +4%
- 10MCKENZIE CAPITAL LLCIndependent64 +6300%
Equipment categories
New filings in May 2026
- Equipment, type not stated8,279 · 90.4%-4% month over month
- Agriculture559 · 6.1%+9% month over month
- Construction255 · 2.8%-5% month over month
- IT & office37 · 0.4%-30% month over month
- Manufacturing22 · 0.2%-35% month over month
- Vehicles2 · 0.0%-67% month over month
- Trucks & trailers2 · 0.0%0% month over month
- Medical0 · 0.0%-100% month over month
By lender type
Share of filings with a named lender
- Other3,807 · 41.9%
- Bank2,503 · 27.6%
- Independent1,923 · 21.2%
- Captive finance847 · 9.3%
Busiest cities
New filings in May 2026
- Miami856 · 9.3%
- Orlando438 · 4.8%
- Tampa392 · 4.3%
- Jacksonville319 · 3.5%
- Naples195 · 2.1%
- Fort Lauderdale152 · 1.7%
- West Palm Beach146 · 1.6%
- Boca Raton130 · 1.4%
- Sarasota130 · 1.4%
- Hialeah128 · 1.4%
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The businesses behind these filings
Every filing in this report is in the Radar with the business, the equipment and a score for when it's likely to finance again.