COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY

The business, in plain English

COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY booked $3.4B of revenue in FY2025 in the Consumer Discretionary sector and kept 50.5% of it as gross profit — a solid-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, 5.2% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.

Across the filed record, revenue grew from $1.2B (FY2009) to $3.4B (FY2025) — about 6.5% a year compounded over 16 years.

It earned 12.6% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 17-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 15.3%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 19.2%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 93/100.

COLM's latest filed year, FY2025, doesn't disclose total debt in a form the methodology can use, so current leverage is treated as unmeasured — never assumed to be zero.

Put together: Balance-Sheet Safety is the strongest of the five filters (100/100) and Business Trend the weakest (34/100), which is how COLM lands at 69/100 — a Narrow moat.

This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.