LMMMAlower middle market M&A

MS · NAICS sector 72 · 67 financed acquisitions

$106MCapital deployed

Accommodation and Food Services in Mississippi

67 accommodation and food services businesses in Mississippi were bought with SBA 7(a) acquisition financing since FY2019, carrying $106M of bank debt. The median deal was financed with $1,300,000 over 25 years at 7.75%.

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Volume and price

What accommodation and food services businesses in Mississippi financed by an SBA 7(a) acquisition loan actually cost, and how many of them there were.

Financed acquisitions67Disbursed loans, FY2019 to date
Capital deployed$106MGross approval, all years
Median loan$1,300,000Half above, half below
Interquartile range$272k - $2.2MMiddle half of deals
Median rate7.75%67 loans with a recorded rate
Median term25 years67 loans with a recorded term

Source: SBA 7(a) FOIA loan-level extract, change-of-ownership approvals, FY2019 onward. Data as of 30 June 2026. n = 67 financed acquisitions.

Loan size distribution
Size bandAcquisitionsShare
Under $250k1420.9%
$250k to $500k913.4%
$500k to $1M46.0%
$1M to $2M1725.4%
$2M to $3.5M1522.4%
$3.5M to $5M57.5%
$5M and above34.5%
All67100.0%

The 7(a) programme caps a single loan at $5M, so the top band is a ceiling of the instrument, not of the market. Deals above it are financed conventionally and do not appear in this file at all.

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How the paper was structured

Loan terms here are not spread smoothly. They spike at exactly ten years and again at exactly twenty-five, with very little in between. Those two points are the programme's maturity ceilings, and which one applies depends on what secures the loan, so a term running past ten years indicates real property was financed alongside the business.

Term structure
TermWhat it indicatesAcquisitionsShare
Under 10 yearsShorter than the goodwill maximum46.0%
Exactly 10 yearsThe standard goodwill-only note1928.4%
10 to 20 yearsMixed collateral710.4%
20 years and overReal property financed with the business3755.2%

28.4% of loans here run exactly ten years and 55.2% run twenty years or more. n = 67 loans with a recorded term.

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What happened next

Two outcomes are visible in the file: approvals that never funded, and funded loans that later charged off. Both are facts about deals, not forecasts.

Approvals cancelled1.5%1 of 68 approvals never disbursed
Charged off, FY2019-FY2021 cohort-Cohort too small to publish (33 loans)
Jobs recorded1,005Jobs supported, as reported by the lender at approval
Franchised67.2%Share of acquisitions carrying a franchise name

The charge-off share is cumulative as of 30 June 2026 for loans approved in FY2019-FY2021. Those loans are five to seven years into terms that are usually ten years, so the figure is a floor and the lifetime rate will be higher. It is not comparable to a rate computed over a fully matured cohort, and the site does not publish one for later years for that reason.

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By fiscal year

FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26*

* FY2026 is incomplete. The extract closes 30 June 2026, nine months into a fiscal year that ends 30 September, and some FY2026 approvals have not yet disbursed. Do not read the last column as a decline.

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Inside this cross-section

Industry groups
Industry groupAcquisitionsShare
7211 Traveler Accommodation3653.7%
7225 Restaurants and Other Eating Places3146.3%
Counties
CountyAcquisitionsShare
Jackson1116.4%
Harrison811.9%
Lee69.0%
Madison57.5%
Hinds46.0%
Desoto34.5%
Rankin34.5%
Lowndes34.5%
Lenders
LenderAcquisitionsShare
GBank1217.9%
Peoples Bank1014.9%
Community Bank of Mississippi57.5%
BankFirst Financial Services57.5%
BankPlus46.0%
First State Bank34.5%
Hancock Whitney Bank34.5%
Live Oak Banking Company34.5%
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