Avista Corp (NYSE: AVA) is 8.38% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $33.00 and a high of $40.21 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The AVA stock was last observed hovering at around $39.06 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.64%.
Currently trading at $39.70, the stock is 3.63% and 6.79% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.85 million and changing 1.64% at the moment leaves the stock 6.49% off its SMA200. AVA registered 18.51% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of 1.43%.
The stock witnessed a 7.73% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 4.50%, and is -0.68% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.67% over the week and 1.90% over the month.
Avista Corp (AVA) has around 1950 employees, a market worth around $3.18B and $1.94B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 17.42 and Fwd P/E is 14.52. Profit margin for the company is 9.29%. Distance from 52-week low is 20.30% and -1.27% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.36%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 10.51% this year.
Avista Corp (AVA) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 80.04M, and float is at 79.22M with Short Float at 3.50%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 14.75 million shares valued at $510.66 million. The investor’s holdings represent 18.8772% of the AVA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 9.71 million shares valued at $336.1 million to account for 12.4246 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 4.77 million shares representing 6.0786% and valued at over $164.92 million, while PUBLIC SECTOR PENSION INVESTMENT BOARD holds 4.5305 of the shares totaling 3.55 million with a market value of $122.92 million.
Avista Corp (AVA) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Kinney Scott J, the company’s Vice President. SEC filings show that Kinney Scott J sold 2,298 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 06 ’25 at a price of $38.75 per share for a total of $89054.0. Following the sale, the insider now owns 12539.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 04 ’25, Manuel Wayne O (Vice President) disposed off 3,000 shares at an average price of $40.00 for $0.12 million. The insider now directly holds 11,179 shares of Avista Corp (AVA).
