AVA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Avista | NYSE:AVA)

Avista Corp is an electric and natural gas utility company. The company has two business segments including Avista Utilities, which provides electric distribution and transmission, and natural gas distribution services in parts of eastern Washington and northern Idaho, and also provides natural gas distribution service in parts of northeastern and southwestern Oregon. Avista Utilities has electric generating facilities in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana. AEL&P is a regulated utility providing electric services in Juneau, Alaska that is a wholly-owned subsidiary and the primary operating subsidiary of AERC.

Avista trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol AVA.

As of March 4, 2025, AVA stock price declined to $39.80 with 1,133,198 million shares trading.

AVA has a beta of 0.03, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. AVA has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AVA has a market cap of $3.19 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Avista reported $517 million in Revenue and $.84 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $30 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.03.

In the last 3 years, AVA traded as high as $46.90 and as low as $30.53.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that AVA belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, IWM, VB, DVY.

AVA has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +25.2% while the SPY ETF gained +13.9%. AVA has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +6.1% and +9.6%, respectively, while the SPY returned -4.2% and -5.4%, respectively.

AVA support price is $39.50 and resistance is $40.34 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that AVA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.