Monthly report
Wisconsin Equipment Finance Report, April 2026
Lenders filed 3,495 new UCC financing statements for business equipment in Wisconsin in April 2026, up 10% from the month before and up 1% on the same month a year earlier. John Deere Financial filed the most, 147. FARM CREDIT SERVICES OF AMERICA, PCA grew fastest, from 34 to 63. Agriculture was the largest identified equipment category with 323 filings.
New equipment filings
Month over month
Year over year
New equipment filings, last 12 months
Wisconsin, businesses only
| 2025-05 | 3299 |
|---|---|
| 2025-06 | 3065 |
| 2025-07 | 3004 |
| 2025-08 | 2639 |
| 2025-09 | 2856 |
| 2025-10 | 2969 |
| 2025-11 | 2323 |
| 2025-12 | 3772 |
| 2026-01 | 2732 |
| 2026-02 | 2607 |
| 2026-03 | 3177 |
| 2026-04 | 3495 |
Top lenders
New filings in April 2026, change from the month before
- 1John Deere FinancialCaptive finance147 -8%
- 2Heights Finance CorporationIndependent79 +5%
- 3Caterpillar FinancialCaptive finance75 +42%
- 4NICOLET NATIONAL BANKBank70 +43%
- 5CNH Industrial CapitalCaptive finance64 +21%
- 6FARM CREDIT SERVICES OF AMERICA, PCABank63 +85%
- 7Compeer Financial, PCAIndependent62 -16%
- 8Kubota CreditCaptive finance54 +108%
- 9WESTconsin Credit UnionBank52 +16%
- 10DLLIndependent49 +26%
Equipment categories
New filings in April 2026
- Equipment, type not stated2,989 · 85.5%+8% month over month
- Agriculture323 · 9.2%+21% month over month
- Construction130 · 3.7%+12% month over month
- IT & office20 · 0.6%+300% month over month
- Manufacturing15 · 0.4%+150% month over month
- Vehicles9 · 0.3%+125% month over month
- Trucks & trailers5 · 0.1%-58% month over month
- Medical4 · 0.1%+100% month over month
By lender type
Share of filings with a named lender
- Bank1,835 · 52.6%
- Other632 · 18.1%
- Independent592 · 17.0%
- Captive finance427 · 12.2%
Busiest cities
New filings in April 2026
- Milwaukee203 · 5.8%
- Waukesha78 · 2.2%
- Madison76 · 2.2%
- Green Bay72 · 2.1%
- Eau Claire54 · 1.5%
- Oshkosh45 · 1.3%
- Appleton44 · 1.3%
- Brookfield43 · 1.2%
- Kenosha32 · 0.9%
- Racine29 · 0.8%
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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.