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Columbia Sportswear Company against other companies

Up to three companies side by side: how their shares have moved, then how the businesses compare on their latest filings and year by year.

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How the shares moved

Every line starts at 0% at the left edge of the window, so what is compared is how each price moved — not what a share of any of them costs.

How the businesses compare

The latest figures from each company’s own filings, side by side. On measures of the business — growth, margins, returns and the balance sheet — the strongest and weakest of the companies shown are marked. Price and size are left unmarked: a lower P/E is a fact about the price, not about the business.

WeakestStrongestAmong the companies shown, not the whole market.In between, the shade shows which end a figure is closer to.

Measure	COLMBColumbia Sportswear Company12 months to Sep 20264Strongest on 4 measures8Weakest on 8 measures	RLC+Ralph Lauren Corporation12 months to Sep 20268Strongest on 8 measures4Weakest on 4 measures
What you pay
P/EPrice paid for each $1 of the last year’s profit	15.8x	22.4x
Price to salesPrice paid for each $1 of the last year’s revenue	1.1x	2.7x
Price to free cash flowPrice paid for each $1 of cash left after investment	13.1x	31.0x
Dividend yieldA year of dividends as a share of today’s price	1.7%	1.0%
How fast it is growing
Revenue growth, 1 yearThe last 12 months against the 12 before	+0.1%Weakest	+12.8%Strongest
Revenue growth, latest quarterAgainst the same quarter a year earlier	+2.0%Weakestquarter to Sep 2026	+9.1%Strongestquarter to Sep 2026
Revenue growth, 3 yearsAverage a year over the last three fiscal years	-0.6%Weakest	+8.0%Strongest
Earnings per share growth, 1 yearThe last 12 months against the 12 before	+38.0%Strongest	+28.7%Weakest
Earnings per share growth, latest quarterAgainst the same quarter a year earlier	+74.7%Strongestquarter to Sep 2026	+46.7%Weakestquarter to Sep 2026
Earnings per share growth, 3 yearsAverage a year over the last three fiscal years	-13.2%Weakest	+25.9%Strongest
How much of each dollar it keeps
Gross marginShare of revenue left after the direct cost of what it sells	52.1%Weakest	71.8%Strongest
Operating marginShare of revenue left after running the business	8.7%Weakest	16.0%Strongest
Net marginShare of revenue kept as profit	7.0%Weakest	12.6%Strongest
Free cash flow marginShare of revenue kept as cash after investment	8.0%	—
Returns and balance sheet
Return on equityProfit as a share of what shareholders have put in	14.0%Weakest	37.7%Strongest
Debt to equityDebt for each $1 of shareholders’ equity	0.28Strongest	1.06Weakest
Current ratioAssets due within a year against bills due within a year	2.59Strongest	2.13Weakest
How big it is
Market valueWhat all its shares are worth today	$3.6B	$23.1B
RevenueThe last 12 months, or the latest fiscal year	$3.4B	$8.5B
ProfitThe last 12 months, or the latest fiscal year	$238.8M	$1.1B
Free cash flowCash from operations less investment in the business	$275.5M	$746.1M

No live quote for COLM, so its market value and multiples use the close of Nov 12, 2026.

No live quote for RL, so its market value and multiples use the close of Nov 12, 2026.

Not yet available: forward P/E, expected earnings growth and expected revenue growth. All three need analysts’ estimates, a licensed survey we do not hold.

Growth, year by year

Each company’s last six fiscal years, as the amount or as the change on the year before.

COLMColumbia Sportswear Company
RLRalph Lauren Corporation

Revenue

Profit

Free cash flow

Earnings per share

Each fiscal year is placed in the calendar year most of its months fell in — NVIDIA’s year to January 2026 sits beside AMD’s year to December 2025 — so bars in one column cover close to the same twelve months. Hover a year to see each company’s own year end. Amounts are in US dollars. TTM is the latest twelve months each company has reported, so it runs past its last fiscal year. As a % change it is measured against the twelve months a year earlier.

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