Axos Bank Announces Acquisition of Verdant Commercial Capital
Axos Bank (“Axos” or the “Company”), the banking subsidiary of Axos Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AX), announced today the acquisition of 100% of the membership interests in Verdant Commercial Capital, LLC (“Verdant” or “VCC”), an independent equipment leasing company with approximately $1.1 billion of loans and leases on its balance sheet at August 31, 2025, including approximately $750 million of on-balance sheet securitizations and $350 million of loans and leases.
Verdant originates small to mid-ticket leases between $50,000 and $5 million nationwide in six specialized industry verticals. Verdant offers a full suite of products, including equipment finance leases, conditional sale leases, fair market value (FMV) leases, and terminal rental adjustment clause (TRAC) leases.
“This acquisition provides us with more scale and enhances our existing equipment leasing business with good risk-adjusted returns,” stated Greg Garrabrants, President and CEO of Axos Financial, Inc. “We like Verdant’s specialization in vendor-based equipment leasing and believe we can scale this business profitably. Additionally, we see opportunities to cross-sell commercial deposits and floorplan lending to manufacturers and dealers in several industry verticals such as specialty vehicles, golf, sports and entertainment. After replacing their high-cost funding with our lower-cost deposit funding and growing new originations, we expect the transaction to be accretive to earnings per share by approximately 2%-3% in fiscal 2026 and 5%-6% in fiscal 2027.”