In last trading session, Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA) saw 0.84 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.38. Company’s recent per share price level of $37.24 trading at -$0.3 or -0.80% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $3.00B. That closing price of AVA’s stock is at a discount of -15.71% from its 52-week high price of $43.09 and is indicating a premium of 6.55% from its 52-week low price of $34.80. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.57 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 689.30K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Avista Corp (AVA), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.80. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 10 analysts covering the stock, 2 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 4 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 4 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA) trade information
Avista Corp’s shares saw a change of 0.98% in year-to-date performance and have moved -2.03% in past 5-day. Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA) showed a performance of 0.03% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 3.16 million shares which calculate 4.92 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 36 to the stock, which implies a fall of -3.44% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 33 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 48. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 11.39% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 11.39% for stock’s current value.
Avista Corp (AVA) estimates and forecasts
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -5.12% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 10.90% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 7.90%.
AVA Dividends
Avista Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-07 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 5.18%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.93 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 4.53%.
Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.84% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 88.08 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 88.83%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 88.08% institutions for Avista Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at AVA for having 14.75 million shares of worth $510.66 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 18.822 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 9.71 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 12.3883 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $336.1 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of May 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 4.76 shares of worth $177.18 million or 5.91% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.51 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $93.37 million in the company or a holder of 3.11% of company’s stock.