Can Buying Columbia Banking System, Inc. (NASDAQ: COLB) Still Be Worthwhile?

Columbia Banking System, Inc. (NASDAQ:COLB) does about 2.97M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1958000 shares change hands in Monday trading. The company now has a market cap of 4.25B USD. Its current market price is $20.37, marking an increase of 0.99% compared to the previous close of $20.17. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $28.11 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $17.08.

Columbia Banking System, Inc. (COLB) has a 20-day trading average at $18.70 and the current price is -27.55% off the 52-week high compared with 19.30% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $18.64 and its 200-day simple moving average is $20.88. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.76%, which increases to 2.92% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 68.12 to suggest the stock is neutral.

The consensus objective for the share price is $21.75, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 6.34% over the period.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 08, 2024 when Barclays initiated the stock to “Equal Weight” and issued a price target of $20. Stephens downgraded the stock to “Equal-Weight” from Overweight on January 25, 2024 at a price target of $31-$24. Raymond James downgraded its price target at $25.

Columbia Banking System, Inc. (COLB) stock is up 7.38% over the week and 10.95% over the past month. Its price is -23.65% year-to-date and 6.76% over the past year.

To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 6.34 percent from here.

The company has a return on investment of 5.18% and return on equity of 9.89%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 8.75 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 7.78. The beta has a value of 0.65. Price to book ratio is 0.86 and price to sales ratio is 1.44.