On Tuesday, Columbia Banking System, Inc (NASDAQ: COLB) was -2.53% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $24.51. A 52-week range for COLB has been $17.08 – $32.85.
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A company in the Financial sector has jumped its sales by 45.09% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at -1.24%. With a float of $207.89 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $209.54 million.
In an organization with 4721 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 98.79%, operating margin of 23.78%, and the pretax margin is 26.99%.
Columbia Banking System, Inc (COLB) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Columbia Banking System, Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Columbia Banking System, Inc is 0.84%, while institutional ownership is 93.06%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 04 ’25, was worth 116,461. In this transaction Senior Executive VP of this company sold 4,481 shares at a rate of $25.99, taking the stock ownership to the 104,869 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 04 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 4,481 for $25.99, making the entire transaction worth $116,461.
Columbia Banking System, Inc (COLB) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.66 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -1.24% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 2.46% during the next five years compared to -0.98% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Columbia Banking System, Inc (NASDAQ: COLB) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Columbia Banking System, Inc (COLB) is doing with its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.69. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.04.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.55, a number that is poised to hit 0.63 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.86 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Columbia Banking System, Inc (COLB)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 2.13 million. That was better than the volume of 1.5 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 11.12%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.82.
During the past 100 days, Columbia Banking System, Inc’s (COLB) raw stochastic average was set at 3.03%, which indicates a significant decrease from 7.20% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 20.45% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 34.46% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $27.17, while its 200-day Moving Average is $25.50. However, in the short run, Columbia Banking System, Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $24.54. Second resistance stands at $25.18. The third major resistance level sits at $25.65. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $23.43, it is likely to go to the next support level at $22.96. The third support level lies at $22.32 if the price breaches the second support level.
Columbia Banking System, Inc (NASDAQ: COLB) Key Stats
There are 209,649K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 5.01 billion. As of now, sales total 2,966 M while income totals 533,680 K. Its latest quarter income was 726,330 K while its last quarter net income were 143,270 K.
