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Axos Financial’s main business is Axos Bank, which serves individuals and businesses across the United States through online and mobile banking and distribution partners. It gathers deposits and uses that funding to make residential mortgage, commercial property and business loans, among other lending. Borrowers pay interest, and the bank keeps the difference after paying interest on deposits and other funding. This net interest income supplies most of the company’s revenue; banking service fees and leasing income provide smaller sources.
Its securities businesses serve financial firms and individual investors. Axos Clearing settles trades for introducing broker-dealers and provides stock and margin lending, while Axos Advisor Services holds client assets for registered investment advisers. They earn interest and fees tied to assets and transactions. Axos Invest earns fees from retail trading and digital investment advice. These businesses also channel client cash into deposits that help fund the bank.
The business depends heavily on funding costs relative to loan yields and on borrowers repaying. Most loans are secured by real estate, with much of that property in New York and California. Banking rules require Axos to maintain regulatory capital and constrain lending, investments and dividends.
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United Community Banks competes with Axos nationwide to finance customers’ equipment, while Axos also offers equipment leasing. Watch demand in United Community’s equipment-finance business for a read on the same lending market Axos serves.
Hancock Whitney Corporation shares Axos’s exposure to business borrowing: both lend to companies, finance equipment purchases and leases, and help businesses manage cash. Hancock Whitney’s equipment financing for middle-market and corporate clients is a useful window on demand for Axos’s equipment lending and leasing.
CVB Financial Corp’s Citizens Business Bank competes with Axos for business deposits, including money held in specialized title-and-escrow accounts for property transactions. Those account balances are the clearest part of CVB’s deposit business to watch alongside Axos’s efforts to attract the same type of funds.
Fulton Financial Corp and Axos both lend against commercial property, finance businesses and equipment leases, and take business deposits, giving them similar exposure to business credit and funding costs. Watch Fulton’s commercial property loans, which make up a large part of its lending alongside business and construction loans.
Ameris Bancorp and Axos both rely heavily on interest paid by borrowers and lend against commercial real estate, making loan income and property credit quality relevant to both. Watch Ameris’s loan interest income and its commercial real estate exposure excluding owner-occupied properties.
Kearny Financial Corporation and Axos both use deposits to fund mortgages they keep on their books, covering multifamily housing, commercial property and single-family homes. Multifamily mortgages made up 42.52% of Kearny’s gross loans at June 30, 2026, making that portfolio a focused comparison for Axos’s multifamily lending.
Cathay General Bancorp and Axos share exposure to business borrowers and deposit competition: both finance commercial property and businesses, take business deposits and help companies manage cash. Cathay’s lending to small and medium-sized businesses offers a comparison for the business-credit conditions Axos faces.
Provident Financial Services and Axos both use customer deposits to fund commercial property, business and residential loans, tying their lending economics to funding costs and borrowers’ repayments. Provident’s commercial real estate lending is a useful comparison, though its loans are concentrated around its branch communities rather than Axos’s nationwide channels.
Hope Bancorp’s Bank of Hope and Axos both earn the difference between interest collected on commercial property and business loans and the cost of deposits funding them; both also help businesses manage cash. Watch Bank of Hope’s income from those loans alongside its deposit costs, rather than its gains from selling financial assets.
United Community Banks, Inc. earningsUCB
United Community Banks’ report will show whether businesses are still seeking equipment financing in a market where it competes with Axos Financial.
Watch demand in United Community Banks’ equipment-finance business. More financing would indicate that businesses are still borrowing to buy equipment, supporting demand for Axos Financial’s equipment loans and leases; less demand would mean fewer customers seeking those products.
Cathay General Bancorp earningsCATY
Cathay General’s small-business lending gives Axos Financial a read on whether business borrowers are seeking credit and keeping up with repayment.
Read changes in Cathay General’s small- and medium-sized business lending alongside any signs of late repayment or credit losses. Steady demand without worsening repayment would suggest a supportive backdrop for Axos Financial’s business loans; weaker demand or rising repayment stress would point to a harder environment, though the two banks do not serve identical customers or markets.
CVB Financial Corp earningsCVBF
CVB Financial’s title-and-escrow account balances will show where these transaction funds are going, in a deposit market where Axos Financial also competes.
Watch the balances in CVB Financial’s title-and-escrow accounts. Rising balances would show that businesses are still keeping these transaction funds at banks, leaving Axos Financial to compete for the same kind of deposits; falling balances could mean less money is available to banks, not that Axos Financial has won it.
Fulton Financial Corp earningsFULT
Fulton Financial’s commercial-property loans give Axos Financial a comparison for the borrowing and repayment conditions facing this type of lending.
Read changes in Fulton Financial’s commercial-property lending alongside repayment quality. Steady lending and repayment would suggest that conditions for these borrowers have not clearly weakened, a reassuring signal for Axos Financial’s similar loans; worsening repayment or higher credit losses would warrant closer attention to Axos Financial’s exposure, though the banks’ borrowers are not the same.
Kearny Financial Corporation earningsKRNY
Multifamily loans make up a large share of Kearny Financial’s portfolio, giving Axos Financial a focused read on repayment conditions for the same type of property lending.
Watch whether repayment and credit losses on Kearny Financial’s multifamily loans are worsening. Steady repayment and contained losses would suggest that cash flows from this type of property are still supporting borrowers, a positive comparison for Axos Financial’s multifamily loans; rising delinquencies or losses would flag possible pressure on similar borrowers, not prove that Axos Financial has the same problem.
Hope Bancorp, Inc. earningsHOPE
Hope Bancorp’s report will show whether interest from commercial-property and business loans is keeping ahead of deposit costs, a key relationship for Axos Financial’s lending business too.
Compare Hope Bancorp’s interest income from commercial-property and business loans with what it pays depositors. If loan income stays ahead of deposit costs, the spread on this lending remains supported, a useful comparison for Axos Financial; if deposit costs rise faster than loan income, profitability on similar lending at Axos Financial may also come under pressure.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
Axos earns interest on loans and other assets and pays interest on deposits and borrowings, so Fed rate changes can shift both its funding costs and what customers pay to borrow or refinance.
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If it comes in above expectations
If rates rise more than expected, Axos may pay more to retain or attract deposits and fund lending; higher borrowing costs may also weaken demand for its loans and mortgage refinancing, while the effect on its interest income depends on how quickly its assets reprice.
If it comes in below expectations
If rates fall more than expected, Axos may pay less for deposits and other funding, but lower borrowing costs could also affect its loan and refinancing income; the net effect depends on how quickly its assets and liabilities reprice.
Axos Financial, Inc. earningsThis company
Axos Financial earns interest on loans but pays for deposits and borrowings, and this report will show whether loan income still outpaces funding costs and credit losses.
Read loan interest income alongside the interest Axos Financial pays on deposits and borrowings, then check whether its provision for credit losses has risen. Growing loan income with contained funding costs and a steady provision means lending income is not being swallowed by costs or expected losses; slower loan income, higher funding costs or a larger provision would make loan growth harder to convert into profit.
