Columbia Banking System, Inc.: dividend
Price
$30.60
November 13, 2026Market cap $8.5B
What Ploutos Investor adds for Columbia Banking System
Part of Ploutos Investor, €9.99 a month
- The full history: 17 fiscal years, from 2009
- The estimated fair value, with its range and its certainty
- The full analysis, 18 a month
- More questions to the chat on its filings
- Excel with every year
- An email when it reports, changes its dividend or an officer buys
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Yield
4.84%
$1.48 per share over the last 12 months, at a price of $30.60.
Forward yield4.84%($0.37 a quarter)
- Cover from subsidiariesThe parent received 143% of what it paid out from its subsidiaries.
- 1.4x
- Payout50% of the last 12 months' earnings went to the dividend.
- 50%
- No cutYears in a row without a cut, in 17 years of figures.
- 8
- 5-year growthAverage yearly growth over the last five years.
- +1.6%
- CET1Core capital, from the FDIC.
- 12.2%
The dividend year by year
What it paid per share each fiscal year, how much that changed, and the yield it gave at the price at year end.
- 2025Dividend per share$1.45
- 2024Dividend per share$1.44
- 2023Dividend per share$1.43
| Year | Dividend per share | Change | Price | Yield then | As % of earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.45 | +0.7% | $27.95 | 5.19% | 63% |
| 2024 | $1.44 | +0.7% | $27.01 | 5.33% | 56% |
| 2023 | $1.43 | – | $26.68 | 5.36% | 80% |
Each fiscal year's dividend as the company states it in its filings, adjusted for stock splits. Special dividends count in the year they were paid.
The dividend year by year
COLB's dividend per share each fiscal year, from 2009 to 2022, 14 more fiscal years
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Everything it returns to shareholders
The dividend is one way. The other is buybacks, which reduce the number of shares.
Dividend yield
4.84%
$48.40 a year per $1,000 of shares
Buybacks
1.29%
$12.90 a year per $1,000 of shares
The share count rose by 41.0% over the year, so more shares were issued than bought back.
Total returned
6.13%
$61.30 a year per $1,000 of shares
dividend 79%buybacks 21%
COLB beside the other dividend payers
Where it stands among this week's 968 dividend payers, and in the Financial services sector. The dot is the company, the white line the median.
Above 90% of the payers · median 2.03%
In Financial services: above 95%, median 2.29%.
Above 18% of the payers · median +6.3%
In Financial services: above 20%, median +5.6%.
Above 68% of the payers · median 35%
In Financial services: above 84%, median 31%.
The full analysis
What do Columbia Banking System's filings show?
The dividend is one part of Columbia Banking System's picture. The full Ploutos AI analysis reads everything the company has filed and shows what stands behind it, with a source for every figure.
- A fair value range built from the filings
- Earnings quality, debt and red flags
- Insider and institutional moves
- The case for and the case against
What is COLB's dividend yield?
Columbia Banking System paid $1.48 per share over the last 12 months. At a price of $30.60, that is a yield of 4.84%.
Has COLB ever cut its dividend?
Columbia Banking System has not cut its dividend for 8 years, in the 17 years of figures we hold.
How much has COLB's dividend grown?
Columbia Banking System's dividend per share changed by +1.6% a year on average over the last five years.
Related pages
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The figures come from the company's SEC filings and the share price, and describe what it has reported. They are not a score or a fair value.