Columbia Sportswear Company (COLM): Price and Financial Metrics

COLM POWR Grades

• COLM scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 87.63% of US stocks.
• COLM's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• COLM's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 44.21% of US stocks).

COLM Stock Summary

• The price/operating cash flow metric for COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO is higher than 97.23% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• Of note is the ratio of COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 97.49% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for COLM comes in at 7% -- higher than that of 79.87% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO are AOS, MSM, AIT, SITE, and SKX.
• 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

• COLM's price/sales ratio is 1.7; this is 10.53% lower than that of the median Consumer Cyclical stock.
• Over the past 243 months, COLM's price/sales ratio has gone down 0.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for COLM.

COLM Growth Metrics

Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 15.6%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 1.11%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -19.62%.

Over the past 49 months, COLM's revenue has gone up $763,583,000.

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
2022-09-30	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
2021-06-30	2,808.691	430.515	255.091

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.