Columbia Banking System, Inc. (COLB): Price and Financial Metrics

COLB POWR Grades

• COLB scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 86.35% of US stocks.
• COLB's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 160 days.
• COLB ranks lowest in Quality; there it ranks in the 23rd percentile.

COLB Stock Summary

• COLB's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of 88.72% of US stocks.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 841.04%, COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM INC's debt growth rate surpasses 97.86% of about US stocks.
• COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -50.48%, greater than the shareholder yield of just 11% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM INC, a group of peers worth examining would be MYFW, IBTX, EQBK, FBK, and OPHC.
• Visit COLB's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.columbiabank.com.

COLB Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Financial Services stock, COLB's price/sales ratio is 4% lower, now standing at 2.4.
• COLB's price/earnings ratio has moved down 10 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for COLB.

COLB Growth Metrics

Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -39.88%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 358.56%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 9.52%.

Over the past 15 months, COLB's revenue has gone up $102,506,000.

The table below shows COLB's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	720.03	300.684	250.178
2022-09-30	691.069	269.681	224.183
2022-06-30	663.698	269.186	212.258
2022-03-31	647.033	238.369	208.489
2021-12-31	616.813	235.065	202.82
2021-09-30	617.524	237.626	218.209

COLB's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• COLB has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 20.7% of graded US stocks.
• COLB's asset turnover comes in at 0.035 -- ranking 284th of 431 Banking stocks.
• EMCF, CCNE, and BANR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with COLB.

The table below shows COLB's key quality metrics over time.