Columbia Sportswear Company

COLM Consumer Cyclical Apparel Manufacturing

Columbia Sportswear Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.4 billion, up 0.85% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+2.03%
EPS
+75.5%
Free cash flow
−15.9%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

69.12 1.81 −2.55%
Market cap
$3.5B
P/E
15.1×
Fwd P/E
14.1×
Dividend yield
1.74%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
4.22
Beneish M
−2.69
Dividend safety
90/100

Columbia Sportswear Company (COLM) Free cash flow margin

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Columbia Sportswear Company's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 8.04%, up 1.7 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (6.38%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −2.42% (fiscal 2022) to 16.7% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Apparel Manufacturing industry median of 3.76% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 3.20%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 6.38% (6.42)
FY2024 12.8% (3.88)
FY2023 16.7% 19.10
FY2022 −2.42% (12.64)
FY2021 10.2% 0.33
FY2020 9.89% 4.57
FY2019 5.32% (2.67)
FY2018 7.99% (3.69)
FY2017 11.7% 2.20
FY2016 9.48% 8.39

Against its own ten years

Low −2.42% High 16.7%
Ten-year median 9.48%
Current reading's percentile 36

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
FIGS FIGS, Inc. compare 19.7%
KTB Kontoor Brands, Inc. compare 15.0%
LEVI Levi Strauss & Co. compare 9.64%
PVH PVH Corp. compare 8.44%
COLM Columbia Sportswear Company 8.04%
VFC V.F. Corporation compare 7.00%
ZGN Ermenegildo Zegna N.V. compare 0.00%
UA Under Armour, Inc. compare −1.65%
UAA Under Armour, Inc. compare −1.65%
Apparel Manufacturing industry median 3.76%
Consumer Cyclical sector median 3.20%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

(Operating Cash Flow + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) + Intangible Assets Change (Net)) ÷ Revenue

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