Quote Originally Posted by GSilverman View Post
If Average deal length was 14 months...that's 70 weeks....on average 1.5% of the portfolio falls off weekly if no renewals - not counting early payoffs
On Deck, their nearest competitor, has an average duration of just over 13 months per their 2016 Q3 10-Q (page 33). Your estimate of 1.5% a week would be 15.38 months. That is 18% longer than On Deck's average term. There is simply no way there is that big of a disparity given CAN's non-retention/vanilla/whatever max term was 18 months. Doing some more math, On Deck's average loan term is about 55% of their vanilla max term of 24 months. (Both advertise 36 month terms but those terms are really more marketing than reality.) If CAN's vanilla max term was 18 months, then 55% of that would be around 10 months or about 2.25% a week. Assuming CAN had a 24 month term on their vanilla product as well, then reason holds it would be about in line with On Deck's average of 13 months, which means they'd have run off of about 1.85% a week. They are probably seeing more severe portfolio contraction than you are estimating. I'd also note that average term accounts for early payoffs, so it's not necessary to make that disclaimer.