Columbia Sportswear Company (COLM): Price and Financial Metrics

COLM POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where COLM ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 84.46% of US stocks.
• COLM's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 177 days.
• COLM ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 31st percentile.

COLM Stock Summary

• COLM has a higher market value than 75.3% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $4,619,768,469.
• Of note is the ratio of COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.13% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO is higher than it is for about merely 24.24% of US stocks.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO, a group of peers worth examining would be IVZ, RHI, GIC, LZB, and CNXN.
• Visit COLM's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.columbia.com.

COLM Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Cyclical stock, COLM's price/sales ratio is 25% lower, now standing at 1.2.
• COLM's price/sales ratio has moved down 1.4 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for COLM.

COLM Growth Metrics

Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -22.57%.
• The 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 20.7%.
• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 20.7%.

Over the past 15 months, COLM's revenue has gone up $551,847,000.

The table below shows COLM'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	3,464.152	-25.241	311.44
2022-09-30	3,424.352	41.955	342.711
2022-06-30	3,273.999	124.576	331.524
2022-03-31	3,262.306	209.719	365.045
2021-12-31	3,126.402	354.406	354.108
2021-09-30	2,912.305	458.399	292.903

COLM'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.

• COLM has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 91.2% of graded US stocks.
• COLM's asset turnover comes in at 1.008 -- ranking 15th of 32 Apparel stocks.
• RL, SHOO, and LEVI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with COLM.

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