Columbia Sportswear - COLM Stock Forecast, Price & News

9 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Columbia Sportswear in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" COLM shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in COLM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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9 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price objectives for Columbia Sportswear's shares. Their COLM share price forecasts range from $80.00 to $117.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $86.88 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.0%.
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Columbia Sportswear's stock was trading at $97.44 at the start of the year. Since then, COLM shares have decreased by 9.9% and is now trading at $87.79.
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Columbia Sportswear saw a drop in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 986,800 shares, a drop of 10.3% from the October 31st total of 1,100,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 380,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 3.1% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 2nd 2023.
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Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) issued its earnings results on Thursday, October, 28th. The textile maker reported $1.52 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.31 by $0.21. The textile maker had revenue of $804.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $862.03 million. Columbia Sportswear had a net margin of 10.01% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.64%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 14.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.94 earnings per share.

Columbia Sportswear declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 27th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.30 per share on Thursday, December 1st. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.37%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 16th.
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Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.36%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 22.51%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, COLM will have a dividend payout ratio of 20.83% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Columbia Sportswear's stock split on Monday, September 29th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, July 24th 2014. The newly created shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Friday, September 26th 2014. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Columbia Sportswear declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Thursday, February 4th 2021, which permits the company to repurchase $400,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 6.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Columbia Sportswear issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Saturday, November, 5th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $5.00-$5.40 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $5.16. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.44 billion-$3.50 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.47 billion.

389 employees have rated Columbia Sportswear Chief Executive Officer Tim Boyle on Glassdoor.com. Tim Boyle has an approval rating of 89% among the company's employees. 67.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Columbia Sportswear to a friend.

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Columbia Sportswear trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "COLM."

Columbia Sportswear's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (4.88%), BlackRock Inc. (4.81%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.97%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (1.60%), State Street Corp (1.59%) and Macquarie Group Ltd. (1.41%). Insiders that own company stock include Douglas H Morse, Franco Fogliato, Gertrude Boyle Trust, Jim A Swanson, Joseph P Boyle, Lisa Kulok, Peter J Bragdon, Ronald E Nelson, Sarah Bany, Stephen E Babson, Thomas B Cusick and Walter Klenz.
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Shares of COLM stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of COLM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $87.79.

Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) has a market capitalization of $5.45 billion and generates $3.13 billion in revenue each year. The textile maker earns $354.11 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.33 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 8,325 workers across the globe.

Columbia Sportswear's mailing address is 14375 NORTHWEST SCIENCE PARK DRIVE, PORTLAND OR, 97229. The official website for the company is www.columbia.com. The textile maker can be reached via phone at (503) 985-4000, via email at aburns@columbia.com, or via fax at 503-289-6602.