NYSE:AVA - Avista Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Avista announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, February 5th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 21st will be paid a dividend of $0.405 per share on Friday, March 13th. This represents a $1.62 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.16%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 20th. This is a boost from Avista's previous quarterly dividend of $0.39. View Avista's Dividend History.

Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA) released 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 return on equity of 5.96% and a net margin of 14.19%. During the same period in the prior 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 26th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Avista.

Avista will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 26th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Avista issued an update on its FY 2019 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Monday, November, 25th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.83-3.03 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.92.

4 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Avista's shares. Their forecasts range from $42.00 to $43.00. On average, they anticipate Avista's share price to reach $42.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.3%. 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 4 sell ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Sell." View Analyst Ratings for Avista.

News articles about AVA stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Avista earned a daily sentiment score of 1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the utilities provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Avista.

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

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Avista investors own include Energy Transfer LP Unit (ET), AT&T (T), AbbVie (ABBV), IDACORP (IDA), Verizon Communications (VZ), Ford Motor (F), Pfizer (PFE), Chevron (CVX), The Coca-Cola (KO) and Exxon Mobil (XOM).

Avista's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.57%), State Street Corp (3.46%), Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp (2.75%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.74%), Citigroup Inc. (2.15%) and Acadian Asset Management LLC (1.78%). 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, Mcgeever Michael, 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 Credit Suisse AG, Bank of America Corp DE, Man Group plc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, Arizona State Retirement System, AQR Capital Management LLC and 361 Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Avista company stock in the last year include Heidi B Stanley, James M Kensok, Jason R Thackston, Kevin J Christie, Marian M Durkin, R John Taylor and Scott L Morris. View Insider Buying and Selling for Avista.

AVA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Citigroup Inc., Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, State Street Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, First Trust Advisors LP, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp and Geode Capital Management LLC. 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 $51.19.

Avista has a market capitalization of $3.41 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]