Columbia Sportswear - COLM Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Columbia Sportswear in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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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7 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Columbia Sportswear's stock. Their COLM share price forecasts range from $80.00 to $117.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $88.38 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.7%.
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Columbia Sportswear's stock was trading at $87.58 at the start of the year. Since then, COLM stock has increased by 3.7% and is now trading at $90.85.
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Columbia Sportswear saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 927,300 shares, an increase of 11.9% from the December 31st total of 828,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 331,300 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days. Currently, 2.6% of the shares of the company 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 will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 2nd at 5:00 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) posted 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 trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.64% and a net margin of 10.01%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 14.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.94 EPS.

Columbia Sportswear announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 27th. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.32%. The ex-dividend date 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 1.32%. 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 20.51% 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 the morning of Monday, September 29th 2014. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, July 24th 2014. The newly issued 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 announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback program 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 buy up to 6.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication 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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Trust Walden Corp (1.42%), Comerica Bank (0.06%), Cairn Investment Group Inc. (0.05%), Laurus Investment Counsel Inc. (0.03%), Yousif Capital Management LLC (0.03%) and Strs Ohio (0.03%). 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 $90.85.

Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) has a market capitalization of $5.64 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.