9-Mar-2026
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Seeking Alpha News (Mon, 9-Mar 1:00 PM ET)
Avista Corp. Reports 2025 Financial Results, Initiates 2026 Utility Earnings Guidance
Globe Newswire (Wed, 25-Feb 7:05 AM ET)
Avista Makes Annual Price Adjustment Filing in Idaho
Globe Newswire (Fri, 13-Feb 7:10 PM ET)
Avista Corp. Board Increases Common Stock Dividend
Globe Newswire (Mon, 9-Feb 7:48 PM ET)
Avista Selects Projects for New Energy and Capacity Resources along with Demand Response
Globe Newswire (Mon, 26-Jan 4:05 PM ET)
Avista Corp. Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast Announced
Globe Newswire (Wed, 21-Jan 4:05 PM ET)
Globe Newswire (Fri, 16-Jan 4:05 PM ET)
Globe Newswire (Mon, 29-Dec 12:00 PM ET)
Avista Posts Updated Corporate Responsibility Report
Globe Newswire (Tue, 23-Dec 4:05 PM ET)
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 segment 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 9, 2026, AVA stock price climbed to $39.67 with 628,975 million shares trading.
AVA has a beta of -0.07, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. AVA has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.
AVA has a market cap of $3.26 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter Avista reported $518 million in Revenue and $.87 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-23 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.15.
In the last 3 years, AVA traded as high as $45.13 and as low as $30.53.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that AVA belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, VTI, VB, IWM, VBR.
AVA has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +6.6% while the SPY ETF gained +19.7%. However, in the short term, AVA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +3.8% vs -0.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, AVA shares have been beat by the market, returning -5.1% compared to an SPY return of -1.6%.
AVA support price is $39.14 and resistance is $40.18 (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.