With 1.49 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.62 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $22.11 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $21.62. The 52-week range on COLB shows that it touched its highest point at $32.85 and its lowest point at $17.08 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $29.77. With its current market cap of 4.61 billion, COLB has annualized dividend of $1.44 while the current yield stands at 6.56%. COLB paid its most recent dividend on 1740700800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1740700800. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.59.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of COLB was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -1.17%, but this was down by -11.28% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -22.79% while six-month performance fell -19.18%. The stock gained 24.86% in the past year, while it has lost -18.73% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for COLB yields 2.55 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.85. For the next quarter, that number is 0.64. This implies an EPS growth rate of -1.17% for this year and 6.32% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 2.60% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -0.98%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 209.54 million COLB shares are outstanding with a float of 208.35 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 7.27 million, which was 346.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Clint E. Stein CPA as the firm’s President, CEO & Director, Mr. Ronald L. Farnsworth Jr., CPA serves as its Executive VP & CFO.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.94651 of COLB’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for COLB since 10 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 6 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With COLB analysts setting a high price target of 35.0 and a low target of 22.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 28.86364. Based on these targets, COLB could surge 59.45% to reach the target high and rise by 0.23% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 31.5% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.67481 being high and $2.61537 being low. For COLB, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.63518. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.69 and the low estimate is $0.63. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.67.
