secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Columbia Financial, Inc. (CLBK)
CIK:        0001723596
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-02-02T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001723596-26-000004
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Columbia Financial Q4 net income $15.7M vs year-ago loss $21.2M; core earnings up 40%
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- Net income $15.7M ($0.15 per share) vs net loss $21.2M ($0.21 per share) in Q4 2024.
- Core net income $15.9M, up 39.6% YoY from $11.4M.
- Q4 2024 included a $37.9M pre-tax restructuring loss from selling debt securities and prepaying borrowings.
- Improvement attributed to higher net interest income, lower provision for credit losses, and higher non-interest income.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359626000004/0001723596-26-000004-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723596/000172359626000004/clbk-20260202.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001723596-26-000004

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