Columbia Banking System Inc
Columbia Banking System Inc (COLB) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Banks - Regional, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Tacoma, United States and has 6,005 employees. The company is worth $8.46B and trades at 11.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $2.3B in fiscal 2025, up 19.3% from the year before. Net income was $550M. The share price is 11.3% below its 52-week high of $33.68. It pays a dividend yielding 4.95%. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ray Dalio (Bridgewater Associates), at $14.95M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 1 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -13.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,078.02▲ +7.8%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $27.95 | $27.01 | $26.68 | $30.13 | $32.72 | $35.90 | $40.69 | $36.29 | $43.44 | $44.68 | $32.51 | $27.61 | $27.49 | $17.94 | $19.27 | $21.06 | $16.18 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 1.2% a year plus a 5.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 15.7 across this company’s own years on record.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBProsperity Bancshares Inc | $69.85 | 11.8x | 0.8x | 3.44% | 7.07% | $8.39B |
| MORNMorningstar, Inc. | $223.33 | 21.2x | 8.2x | 0.90% | 31.96% | $8.38B |
| WALWestern Alliance Bancorporation | $76.67 | 8.5x | 1.1x | 2.19% | 13.02% | $8.36B |
| THGHanover Insurance Group Inc |
| 15.7x |
| 12.2x |
| 10.6x |
| 15.0x |
| 11.6x |
| 10.2x |
| 16.5x |
| 15.2x |
| 15.4x |
| 23.4x |
| 24.7x |
| 19.0x |
| 18.2x |
| 22.7x |
| 15.5x |
| 15.9x |
| 29.2x |
| — |
| P/S | 3.8x | 3.6x | 2.9x | 2.8x | 1.9x | 2.0x | 4.3x | 5.0x | 4.7x | 6.6x | 6.2x | 4.5x | 4.4x | 4.4x | 2.7x | 3.3x | 3.8x | 2.4x |
| P/B | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 1.4x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 2.1x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 1.3x | 0.9x | 1.0x | 1.2x | 0.7x |
| EPS | $2.30 | $2.55 | $1.78 | $2.60 | $3.21 | $2.17 | $2.68 | $2.36 | $1.86 | $1.81 | $1.71 | $1.52 | $1.21 | $1.16 | $1.21 | $0.72 | -$0.38 |
| Dividend yield | 3.44% | 5.19% | 5.33% | 5.17% | 3.98% | 3.48% | 3.73% | 3.44% | 3.14% | 2.03% | 3.42% | 4.12% | 3.40% | 1.49% | 5.46% | 1.40% | 0.19% | 0.43% |
| Payout | 54.35% | 63.04% | 56.47% | 77.53% | 46.15% | 35.51% | 61.75% | 52.24% | 48.31% | 47.31% | 84.53% | 78.36% | 61.84% | 33.88% | 84.48% | 22.31% | 5.56% | — |
| Profit margin | 23.74% | 23.90% | 27.68% | 17.48% | 26.53% | 32.94% | 25.51% | 32.93% | 30.49% | 23.62% | 24.87% | 23.74% | 22.42% | 18.89% | 17.35% | 21.12% | 14.15% | -2.74% |
| ROE | 6.99% | 7.02% | 10.43% | 6.99% | 13.58% | 16.24% | 6.57% | 9.00% | 8.50% | 5.79% | 8.38% | 7.96% | 6.64% | 5.70% | 6.04% | 6.33% | 4.35% | -0.75% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Dividend growing 5.9% a year against a 7.4% required return, from the stock’s beta.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 2 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+125.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $239.59 |
| 11.1x |
| 2.3x |
| 1.59% |
| 21.89% |
| $8.34B |
| PRIPrimerica, Inc. | $285.72 | 11.5x | 3.5x | 1.68% | 32.97% | $8.79B |
| CBSHCommerce Bancshares Inc | $56.51 | 13.6x | 1.9x | 1.95% | 14.69% | $8.11B |