COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO
At today's price, COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR CO (COLM) is priced for -3.1% growth. 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 Sportswear runs a roughly 50% gross margin and a fortress balance sheet, about $535 million of cash and zero debt, on its outdoor apparel and footwear brands. The brand and the cash are the durable parts; the operating margin, near 6%, is the part under pressure. The near-term picture is mixed but improving. First-quarter 2026 EPS of $0.65 beat sharply, the company raised full-year EPS guidance to $3.55 to $4.00, and international sales grew 16% while U.S. sales fell 10% on tariff-driv
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285 institutional managers reported holding COLM in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 46% of the company; the top 10 hold 27%. 58 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, Dimensional Fund Advisors, among others. On the short side, 3.4M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 7% of shares outstanding (8 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.
COLM has cut its share count 20.7% over the past five years, spending $1.25B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (16 and counting); the current rate is $1.20 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $187.22M in dividends and $774.55M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at COLM over the trailing three years: 2025: 2 buys totaling $31k. 16 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.
COLM's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-06 | -5.1% | -2.3% |
| 2022-08-05 | +1.7% | -2.8% |
| 2022-11-04 | +2.0% | +21.9% |
| 2023-02-24 | -4.0% | -5.0% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
COLM's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-16 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-04-30 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-03-20 (items 1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-02-03 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2025-11-12 (items 5.02, 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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