Columbia Financial

CLBK

Market cap $1.14B

FAIR LAWN, N.J., July 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbia Financial, Inc., (Nasdaq Global Select Market: CLBK), (the “Company” or “Columbia”), a Maryland corporation and the successor to Columbia Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Holding Company”), today announced the completion of the Holding Company's conversion from the mutual holding company structure and Company's related public offering. Columbia Bank is now 100% owned by the Company and the Company is 100% owned by public stockholders.

FAIR LAWN, N.J., July 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbia Financial, Inc. (the “Company”), a Maryland corporation and the proposed successor to Columbia Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: CLBK), a Delaware corporation and the mid-tier holding company for Columbia Bank (the “Holding Company” or “Columbia”), announced today that it has completed its firm commitment underwritten offering in connection with Columbia's second-step conversion. As a result of the firm commitment underwritten offering and the recently completed subscription offering, the Company expects to sell 167,236,353 shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $10.00 per share for total offering proceeds of $1.67 billion.

FAIR LAWN, N.J., July 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Columbia Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLBK), a Delaware corporation and the mid-tier holding company for Columbia Bank (the “Holding Company” or “Columbia”), announced today that Columbia Financial, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”) and the proposed successor to the Holding Company, has commenced a firm commitment underwritten offering to sell shares of common stock not subscribed for in its second-step conversion subscription offering to the general public at $10.00 per share.

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FAIR LAWN, N.J., July 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbia Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLBK), a Delaware corporation and the mid-tier holding company for Columbia Bank (the “Holding Company”), announced today that at its Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 25, 2026, its stockholders approved the Plan of Conversion and Reorganization whereby Columbia Bank MHC, the mutual holding company of the Holding Company and the Bank, will convert from mutual holding company form to the fully public stock holding company form (the “Conversion”), and approved its acquisition of Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (“Northfield”), which will occur simultaneously upon completion of the Conversion. In addition, at a Special Meeting of Members of Columbia Bank MHC held on June 29, 2026, the depositors of the Bank approved the Conversion.

FAIR LAWN, N.J., June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbia Financial, Inc. (“Columbia”) (NASDAQ: CLBK), a Delaware corporation and the mid-tier holding company for Columbia Bank, announced today, on a preliminary basis, that Columbia Financial, Inc., a Maryland corporation and the proposed successor to Columbia, received over 5,000 orders representing approximately $925 million in the subscription offering that expired on June 16, 2026 in connection with the “second-step” conversion of Columbia Bank MHC from mutual to stock form.

FAIR LAWN, N.J. and WOODBRIDGE, N.J., June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbia Financial, Inc. (“Columbia”) (NASDAQ: CLBK), a Delaware corporation and the mid-tier holding company for Columbia Bank (the “Bank”), and Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (“Northfield”) (NASDAQ: NFBK), the holding company for Northfield Bank, jointly announced today that Columbia has provided an election form and letter of transmittal (together with the related instructions, the “Election Materials”) to the holders of Northfield common stock so that Northfield stockholders may elect to receive, upon the completion of the previously announced merger of the Holding Company and Northfield, either (i) shares of common stock of Columbia Financial, Inc., a newly formed Maryland corporation (the “Holding Company”) that will become the holding company for the Bank following the completion of Columbia's pending second-step conversion transaction, (ii) cash, or (iii) a combination of both. The deadline for holders of Northfield common stock to elect their preferred form of merger consideration and to return their completed Election Materials is 5:00 p.m., Eastern time, on July 10, 2026.

FAIR LAWN, N.J., May 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Columbia Financial, Inc. (“Columbia Financial”) (NASDAQ: CLBK), the mid-tier holding company for Columbia Bank (the “Bank”), announced today that on or about May 21, 2026 Columbia Financial, Inc., a newly formed Maryland corporation and the proposed successor holding company of the Bank (“Columbia Financial, Inc.”), expects to commence its offering of common stock in connection with the proposed conversion of Columbia Bank MHC (the “MHC”) from the mutual holding company to the stock holding company form of organization.

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”) are investigating the proposed merger of Northfield Bancorp, Inc. (NasdaqGS: NFBK) and Columbia Financial, Inc. (NasdaqGS: CLBK). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, each Northfield share will be converted into either stock or cash, at the holder's election, with consideration tied to the final independent valuation: from 1.425–1.465 holdi.

The headline numbers for Columbia Financial (CLBK) give insight into how the company performed in the quarter ended March 2026, but it may be worthwhile to compare some of its key metrics to Wall Street estimates and the year-ago actuals.