LOB Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Live Oak Bancshares | NYSE:LOB)

Live Oak Bancshares Inc operates as the bank holding company for the Live Oak Banking Company. The company specializes in lending and deposit-related services to small businesses nationwide. The company identifies and extends lending to credit-worthy borrowers both within specific industries, also called verticals, through expertise within those industries, and more broadly to select borrowers outside of those industries. A portion of the loans originated by the Bank are partially guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the 7(a) Loan Program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Energy for America Program, Water and Environmental Program, Business and Industry and Community Facilities loan programs.

Live Oak Bancshares trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol LOB.

As of February 17, 2026, LOB stock price climbed to $40.75 with 181,234 million shares trading.

LOB has a beta of 0.91, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. LOB has a correlation of 0.19 to the broad based SPY ETF.

LOB has a market cap of $1.88 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Live Oak Bancshares reported $173 million in Revenue and $.95 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $21 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.39.

In the last 3 years, LOB traded as high as $50.57 and as low as $17.31.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that LOB belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, KRE, VB, VXF.

LOB has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +17.0% while the SPY ETF gained +13.2%. LOB has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +30.3% and +2.0%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.9% and -1.3%, respectively.

LOB support price is $39.54 and resistance is $41.54 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that LOB shares will trade within this expected range on the day.