secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Columbia Financial, Inc. (CLBK)
CIK:        0001723596
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-10-25T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001723596-23-000484
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Columbia Financial Q3 net income drops 56% to $9.1M; net interest margin shrinks to 2.06%
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- GAAP EPS of $0.09 vs $0.20 YoY; core net income fell 60% to $9.1M.
- Net interest income $48.5M, down 30% from $69.2M; net interest margin 206 bps vs 301 bps.
- Non-performing loans rose to $15.2M (0.19% of loans) from $6.7M (0.09%).
- Repurchased 4.1M shares for $78.3M at avg $19.08 during nine months; total deposits fell $298M.
- Provision for credit losses increased to $2.4M from $1.5M; net charge-offs were $1.7M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359623000484/0001723596-23-000484-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359623000484/clbk-20231025.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001723596-23-000484

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