AVISTA CORP
At today's price, AVISTA CORP (AVA) is priced for -4.6% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Avista is a Pacific Northwest electric and gas utility whose appeal is income: it pays a dividend yielding roughly 5% with a long record of increases, funded from regulated earnings, and the stock trades at a low multiple of those earnings. • The defining problem is that Avista earns less than it is allowed to: its return on equity of about 7.4% sits below its cost of equity, the symptom of regulatory lag the 10-K describes as the risk of ⟦"disallowance or delay in the recovery of capital inve
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389 institutional managers reported holding AVA in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 86% of the company; the top 10 hold 51%. 42 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 3.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (3.3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
AVA's share count grew 18.6% over the past five years. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting), raised 16 years straight; the current rate is $1.96 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $420.98M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at AVA over the trailing three years: 2023: 2 buys totaling $100k; 2025: 1 buy totaling $131k. 23 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
AVA's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-03 | +0.6% | -16.0% |
| 2023-11-02 | +8.4% | +5.4% |
| 2024-02-22 | +0.1% | +4.8% |
| 2024-05-02 | +2.2% | -7.9% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
AVA's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-02 (items 5.02); 2026-06-12 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-02 (items 8.01); 2026-05-20 (items 1.01, 2.03, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-05-13 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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