secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Columbia Financial, Inc. (CLBK)
CIK:        0001723596
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2024-04-30T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001723596-24-000186
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Columbia Financial posts Q1 net loss of $1.2M vs net income $18.7M YoY; NIM shrinks to 1.75%
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- Net loss of $1.2M ($0.01 diluted EPS) versus net income of $18.7M ($0.18) in Q1 2023.
- Net interest income fell 30.7% to $42.2M; net interest margin dropped 83 bps to 1.75%.
- Provision for credit losses surged to $5.3M from $175k; net charge-offs were $5.0M.
- Non-performing loans rose to $22.9M (0.30% of loans) from $12.6M (0.16%) at Dec 2023.
- Company reaffirms net interest margin stabilization; repurchased 101,516 shares for $1.7M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359624000186/0001723596-24-000186-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359624000186/clbk-20240430.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001723596-24-000186

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