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The short versionA profitable company with steady sales.
Going well
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Buying back shares: share count down 13% in 3 years
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 1.6% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (158 bought, 145 sold)
- Held by Ray Dalio (Bridgewater)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$60.83-0.8% that day
- Company value
- $3.1B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 15.9x
- You pay about $16 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 0.91x
- Company value is 0.91 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 2.0%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 17%
- Cash as a share of company value
From COLM's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jun '26$614.4M+1.5% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $3.4B, down 0.1% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 6.3% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.10.2%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.No debt reported
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.5.2%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$282.9M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.-13.0% in 3 years
- PassGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.50.5%
- Revenue
- $3.4B
- +0.9% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +6.3%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- None
- 0.00x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.59x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jun 30, 2026- Revenue
- $614.4M
- +1.5% YoY
- EPS
- $0.52
- vs -$0.19
- Op. margin
- 5.0%
- +8.9 pts
- Gross margin
- 58.3%
- +9.2 pts
- Free cash flow
- $101.6M
- Share count
- -6.4%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
0/ 100
- This week
- 0
- Normal week
- 0.8
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+1.6%Institutions added 1.6% to their holdings. 158 bought, 145 sold.
Shares held by institutions26.2M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-5.8%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
No debt reportedShares outstandingLatest reported
51MNext reportIn 1 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedJul 30
- Results filedApr 30
- Results filedFeb 3
- Results filedOct 30, 2025
- Results filedJul 31, 2025
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.
Latest filings
Straight from SEC EDGAR
New 5%+ holder (passive)Oct 8 · Form SCHEDULE 13G ↗Option exercisePeter J BragdonPresident
157 shares
- +1% of holdings
- Now owns 29,003 shares
- Filed 4 days after trade
- Also: Shares withheld for taxes
Option exerciseRichelle T LutherEVP, CAO, Gen. Counsel
1,468 shares
- +9% of holdings
- Now owns 18,697 shares
- 3 transactions
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Shares withheld for taxes
Option exerciseLisa KulokEVP, COO
1,316 shares
- +18% of holdings
- Now owns 8,638 shares
- 3 transactions
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Shares withheld for taxes
Option exercisePeter J BragdonPresident
2,544 shares
- +9% of holdings
- Now owns 29,673 shares
- 3 transactions
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Shares withheld for taxes
GiftTimothy P BoyleChairman and CEO, Director, 10% owner
1,756 shares
- +0% of holdings
- Now owns 9,875,315 shares
- Filed 4 days after trade
Quarterly reportAug 6 · Form 10-Q ↗Option exercisePeter J BragdonPresident
464 shares
- +2% of holdings
- Now owns 27,285 shares
- Filed 2 days after trade
- Also: Shares withheld for taxes
Insider tradeAug 5 · Form 4 ↗Earnings resultsJul 30 · Form 8-K ↗Insider tradeJun 23 · Form 4 ↗Leadership changeJun 16 · Form 8-K ↗Insider tradeJun 12 · Form 4 ↗Insider tradeJun 12 · Form 4 ↗Insider tradeJun 12 · Form 4 ↗