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) Return on invested capital

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Columbia Sportswear Company's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 13.3%, down 0.7 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (14.1%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 8.23% (fiscal 2020) to 25.7% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Apparel Manufacturing industry median of 0.00% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 3.42%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 14.1% (3.46)
FY2024 17.5% 1.02
FY2023 16.5% 0.19
FY2022 16.3% (9.39)
FY2021 25.7% 17.49
FY2020 8.23% (13.02)
FY2019 21.3% (1.23)
FY2018 22.5% 3.89
FY2017 18.6% 3.23
FY2016 15.4% 0.64

Against its own ten years

Low 8.23% High 25.7%
Ten-year median 16.5%
Current reading's percentile 18

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
FIGS FIGS, Inc. compare 41.9%
LEVI Levi Strauss & Co. compare 17.6%
COLM Columbia Sportswear Company 13.3%
VFC V.F. Corporation compare 7.74%
PVH PVH Corp. compare 3.74%
ZGN Ermenegildo Zegna N.V. compare 0.00%
KTB Kontoor Brands, Inc. compare 0.00%
UA Under Armour, Inc. compare −4.61%
UAA Under Armour, Inc. compare −4.61%
Apparel Manufacturing industry median 0.00%
Consumer Cyclical sector median 3.42%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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