CarMax raises $600 million from used vehicle contracts

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CarMax Business Services is sponsoring a $600 million securitization of revenue from a pool of non-prime auto loan receivables, issuing fixed-rate notes from the CarMax Select Receivables Trust, series 2026-B.

The capital structure, which will repay seven tranches of senior and subordinate notes sequentially, will issue fixed-rate notes, according to analysts at S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings.

This series of CarMax Select Receivables notes is offering 8.42% in excess spread, a reduction from 9.85% on the CMXS 2026-A notes, according to S&P. That's just one of several structural changes, as total initial hard credit enhancement increased across tranches.

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Total initial hard credit enhancement is 31.75%, 25.25%, 16.25%, 8.50% and 4.50% for the class A, B, C, D and E, respectively, up from 27.15%, 21.10%, 12.55%, 5.60% and 3.50% respectively, S&P said.

Wells Fargo Securities is the lead underwriter on the deal, Fitch said. Classes A1, A2 and A3 have legal final maturity dates of June 15, 2027, April 16, 2029 and Dec. 16, 2030, respectively. Classes B, C and D mature on Oct. 15, 2032 and the E tranche's legal final maturity date of June 15, 2033.

The pool is composed of 31,874 loans, all on used vehicles, which have an average current principal balance of $19,507. The contracts have an original term of 70 months with 63 remaining, and a weighted average (WA) annual percentage rate of 16.3%. Also, they have a WA loan-to-value ratio of 97.7%.

Borrowers have a FICO score of 613 on a WA basis.

Electric and hybrid vehicles accounted for just 2.3% of the asset pool, and is the smallest ratio among the comparison pools, which only reached 4.3% on the AMCAR 2026-1 series of notes.

S&P assigns A1+ to the A1 notes and AAA to the A2 and A3 notes; plus AA+, A+ BBB and BB to the B, C, D and E tranches, respectively. Fitch assigns F1+ to the A1 notes; AAA to the A2 and A3 notes; and AA, A, BBB and BB to the B, C, D and E notes, respectively.


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