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

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

Avista declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, November 5th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 21st will be given a dividend of $0.387 per share on Friday, December 13th. This represents a $1.55 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 20th. View Avista's Dividend History.

Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 7th. The utilities provider reported $0.08 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.15 by $0.07. The utilities provider earned $283.77 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $295.10 million. Avista had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 5.96%. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.15 EPS. 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 issued an update on 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 1-year price targets for Avista's stock. Their forecasts range from $38.00 to $43.00. On average, they expect Avista's share price to reach $41.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.1%. 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.

Media headlines about AVA stock have been trending somewhat negative on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Avista earned a coverage optimism score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the utilities provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Avista.

Avista saw a drop in short interest in October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,080,000 shares, a drop of 23.4% from the September 15th total of 1,410,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 310,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.5 days. Currently, 1.7% of the shares of the stock 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), PG&E (PCG) and NorthWestern (NWE).

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), General Electric (GE) and The Coca-Cola (KO).

Avista's stock is owned by many different 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 $46.65.

Avista has a market capitalization of $3.11 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]