With 210.11M Outstanding Shares, Can Columbia Banking System, Inc (NASDAQ: COLB) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Columbia Banking System, Inc (NASDAQ:COLB) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.95M but it saw 2163432 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 4.97B USD, the company’s current market price of $23.66 came falling about -0.08 while comparing to the previous closing price of $23.68. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $32.85 and as low as $18.11.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Jefferies which initiated the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on May 21, 2025, recommending a price target of $27 for it. Wells Fargo upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Overweight” from “Equal Weight” on January 06, 2025 while assigning a price target range of $33-$35.

Over the week, COLB’s stock price is moving -5.85% down while it is 0.60% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -12.40% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 17.89%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.66 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.67. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $500.1M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $2.12B and seeing the company making $2.9B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $492M for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Columbia Banking System, Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 210.11M with 0.72% of that held by the insiders while 96.90% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 5.95% and return on equity (ROE) at 9.73%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 9.99 while having a 7.73 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.60. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.95 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.68. Its return on asset (ROA) is 0.96% on average.