Avista Stock Price, Forecast & Analysis (NYSE:AVA)

Avista trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AVA."

Avista announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 5th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 21st will be paid a dividend of $0.387 per share on Friday, December 13th. This represents a $1.55 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.34%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, November 20th. View Avista's Dividend History.

Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.08 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.15 by $0.07. The utilities provider earned $283.77 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $295.10 million. Avista had a return on equity of 5.96% and a net margin of 14.19%. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.15 earnings per share. View Avista's Earnings History.

Avista is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 19th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Avista.

Avista updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 7th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.83-3.03 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.95.

4 analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Avista's shares. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $43.00. On average, they anticipate Avista's stock price to reach $41.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Avista.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Avista in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings and 1 hold rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View Analyst Ratings for Avista.

News stories about AVA stock have trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Avista earned a news sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Avista.

Avista saw a drop in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 1,080,000 shares, a drop of 23.4% from the September 30th total of 1,410,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 310,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.5 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Avista's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Avista include Dominion Energy (D), Sempra Energy (SRE), Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG), Consolidated Edison (ED), WEC Energy Group (WEC), DTE Energy (DTE), Ameren (AEE), CMS Energy (CMS), CenterPoint Energy (CNP), Alliant Energy (LNT), NiSource (NI), Mdu Resources Group (MDU), Black Hills (BKH), NorthWestern (NWE) and PG&E (PCG).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Avista investors own include AT&T (T), Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), Ford Motor (F), IDACORP (IDA), AbbVie (ABBV), Verizon Communications (VZ), CBL & Associates Properties (CBL), Chevron (CVX), Pfizer (PFE) and SunCoke Energy Partners (SXCP).

Avista's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include First Trust Advisors LP (1.38%), Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.96%), Reinhart Partners Inc. (0.56%), Gabelli Funds LLC (0.46%), Rhumbline Advisers (0.33%) and Chartwell Investment Partners LLC (0.31%). Company insiders that own Avista stock include Broomfield Robert, David J Meyer, Heidi B Stanley, James M Kensok, Jason R Thackston, Karen S Feltes, Kevin J Christie, Marian M Durkin, R John Taylor and Scott L Morris. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Avista.

AVA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Monarch Partners Asset Management LLC, Peregrine Capital Management LLC, Gabelli Funds LLC, Pegasus Partners Ltd., Chartwell Investment Partners LLC, Alps Advisors Inc., Gamco Investors INC. ET AL and D.A. Davidson & CO.. Company insiders that have sold Avista company stock in the last year include David J Meyer, Heidi B Stanley, James M Kensok, Jason R Thackston, Karen S Feltes, Kevin J Christie, Marian M Durkin, R John Taylor and Scott L Morris. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avista.

AVA stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Russell Investments Group Ltd., Crow Point Partners LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, California Public Employees Retirement System, W.E. Donoghue & Co. LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Dupont Capital Management Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avista.

Shares of AVA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AVA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.38.

Avista has a market capitalization of $3.09 billion and generates $1.40 billion in revenue each year. The utilities provider earns $136.42 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.11 on an earnings per share basis. Avista employs 1,766 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Avista.

The official website for Avista is http://www.myavista.com/.

Avista's mailing address is 1411 E MISSION AVE, SPOKANE WA, 99202. The utilities provider can be reached via phone at 509-489-0500 or via email at [email protected]