COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM, INC.
At today's price, COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM, INC. (COLB) is priced for 12.5% return on equity. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
Columbia Banking is a Pacific Northwest regional bank returning capital aggressively: it authorized a $700 million buyback through November 2026 and repurchased $200 million (6.5 million shares) in the first quarter, on top of a dividend yielding close to 5%. The earnings story is the Pacific Premier acquisition (completed August 2025) coming through. First-quarter 2026 net income jumped to $192 million from $87 million a year earlier, diluted EPS rose to $0.66, and operating EPS of $0.72 beat,
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507 institutional managers reported holding COLB in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 94% of the company; the top 10 hold 52%. 63 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Wellington Management, among others. On the short side, 9.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 3% of shares outstanding (3.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting), raised 4 years straight; the current rate is $1.45 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $892.03M in dividends and $330.04M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at COLB over the trailing three years: 2024: 20 buys totaling $1.08M; 2026: 1 buy totaling $22k. 28 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
COLB's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-05 | -3.3% | -3.5% |
| 2022-10-29 | +3.0% | -10.2% |
| 2023-05-10 | +7.3% | +13.3% |
| 2023-08-04 | -4.6% | -10.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
COLB's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-01 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-05-15 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-15 (items 5.07); 2026-04-23 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-03-31 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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