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COLB COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 197236102 · Sector: Financials

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
545
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+21
Last quarter 524 → now 545
How unusual is that
Top 20%
Stronger buying than 84% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

545 funds held COLB at the end of 2026Q2, up 21 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 83.9% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, the P/E is 11.6x, return on equity is 9.4%. COLB has had 11 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +8.1% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Financials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=158 2013Q4: holders=163 2014Q1: holders=161 2014Q2: holders=159 2014Q3: holders=171 2014Q4: holders=186 2015Q1: holders=183 2015Q2: holders=183 2015Q3: holders=186 2015Q4: holders=201 2016Q1: holders=190 2016Q2: holders=180 2016Q3: holders=179 2016Q4: holders=200 2017Q1: holders=194 2017Q2: holders=194 2017Q3: holders=195 2017Q4: holders=236 2018Q1: holders=239 2018Q2: holders=221 2018Q3: holders=224 2018Q4: holders=220 2019Q1: holders=213 2019Q2: holders=200 2019Q3: holders=202 2019Q4: holders=207 2020Q1: holders=199 2020Q2: holders=181 2020Q3: holders=183 2020Q4: holders=200 2021Q1: holders=215 2021Q2: holders=215 2021Q3: holders=213 2021Q4: holders=248 2022Q1: holders=256 2022Q2: holders=253 2022Q3: holders=247 2022Q4: holders=255 2023Q1: holders=379 2023Q2: holders=354 2023Q3: holders=333 2023Q4: holders=371 2024Q1: holders=353 2024Q2: holders=364 2024Q3: holders=374 2024Q4: holders=402 2025Q1: holders=402 2025Q2: holders=412 2025Q3: holders=478 2025Q4: holders=503 2026Q1: holders=524 2026Q2: holders=545 -124 -62 +0 +62 +124 142358573 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 11 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 20%
2026Q1 Top 20%
2025Q3 Top 5% +22.7% +18.2%
2024Q4 Top 20% -7.5% -3.2%
2023Q4 Top 20% +12.6% +36.3%
2023Q1 Top 1% in the market -5.4% +12.9%
2021Q4 Top 20% -21.1% -11.2%
2017Q4 Top 20% +0.4% +0.5%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
212
Change in large funds
+16
Total value they hold
$8.6B
Funds buying for the first time
86
Funds that sold out entirely
65
Price change that quarter
+3.5%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
3
Funds holding calls (bullish)
4

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
11.6
EPS (TTM)
$2.55
EPS YoY
+0.8%
Revenue (TTM)
Revenue YoY
Net margin
ROE
9.4%
Debt ratio
88.4%
FCF (TTM)
Dividend (TTM)
$1.47
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-03-31: EPS 0.70 2022-06-30: EPS 0.61 2022-09-30: EPS 0.65 2022-12-31: EPS 0.64 2023-03-31: EPS -0.09 2023-06-30: EPS 0.64 2023-09-30: EPS 0.65 2023-12-31: EPS 0.58 2024-03-31: EPS 0.59 2024-06-30: EPS 0.57 2024-09-30: EPS 0.70 2024-12-31: EPS 0.69 2025-03-31: EPS 0.41 2025-06-30: EPS 0.73 2025-09-30: EPS 0.40 2025-12-31: EPS 0.76 2026-03-31: EPS 0.66 2026-06-30: EPS 0.73 -0.10 0.37 0.84 2022202320242025202606/26 EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 10 7 10 14 20222023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-42M112M266M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $266M (2023-06-30)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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