With 2.09 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.94 million shares. During the session, the Banks – Regional company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $23.69 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $23.105. The 52-week range on COLB shows that it touched its highest point at $32.85 and its lowest point at $18.22 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $27.79. With its current market cap of 4.91 billion, COLB has annualized dividend of $1.44 while the current yield stands at 6.16%. COLB paid its most recent dividend on 1748563200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1748563200. 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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.70%, but this was down by -8.71% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.34% while six-month performance fell -21.68%. The stock gained 24.63% in the past year, while it has lost -13.44% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for COLB yields 2.37 with Next year EPS estimates of 3.05. For the next quarter, that number is 0.66. This implies an EPS growth rate of -1.42% for this year and 14.21% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 6.28% 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, 210.11 million COLB shares are outstanding with a float of 208.40 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-05-30, short shares totaled 10.04 million, which was 478.0 higher than short shares on 1745971200. 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 0.96694 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 32.0 and a low target of 24.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 27.59091. Based on these targets, COLB could surge 36.87% to reach the target high and rise by 2.65% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 18.01% 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.
