Franchise intelligence
The most profitable franchises to buy
Nobody publishes audited franchise profits. The closest honest signal is in the lending record: brands whose units cost more to buy or build — a proxy for the revenue they have to support — whose loans almost never fail. We rank by typical SBA deal size, discounted by failure rate. See the survival ranking →
This is an SBA-data strength proxy, not audited unit economics. Loan size tracks what a unit costs and the cash flow it must carry; the failure rate shows how often the brand's deals survive. For real margins, read the franchisor's FDD (Item 19) and talk to current franchisees before an LOI.