Company Analysis

Avista Corporation (AVA)

NYSE: AVA · Electric & Other Services Combined · Spokane, WA · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.1
◀ Past 5.8● Present 4.9▶ Future 5.0

The grade of Avista Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.1/10
◀ Past5.825% of the headline
● Present4.945% of the headline
▶ Future5.030% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Avista Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.8/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+3.5% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 22% of this tense · 49th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Avista Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.5% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 9% from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span3.5%bottom 44% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 44% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 38% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak8.6%bottom 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 3.5% a year. 31% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 8 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 40th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Avista Corporation's diluted share count grew about 3.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 31% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 14% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 34% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

4.9/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
4.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 7%: 7¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 68%: owes 68¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 44th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Avista Corporation earned about 7 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 68 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 2.8% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 25% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 19% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 36% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 43% of 18 in its family; net margin 9.8%.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Avista Corporation's standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.0 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 31% by size; a net margin of 9.8% ranks in the bottom 25%; revenue growth of 4.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 26% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.96Bbottom 31% of its family
  • net margin9.8%bottom 25% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth4.7%top 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 32% of 16 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025.

weight 22% of this tense · 68th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Avista Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Rosentrater, Heather Lynn (President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-01-08, 1.8 years (bottom 16% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.6 years (top 9%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 3%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge2 in three years among 22 peopletop 3% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed9.6 yearstop 9% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record1.8 yearsbottom 16% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
7.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 23% of 17 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 77th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Avista Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $19 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 0.2% of its assets as net cash, top 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -5.1% of revenue (top 38%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets0.2%top 8% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-5.1%top 38% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.4/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 46% of 17 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 54th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Avista Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.7% a year over the last three filed years against 3.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 15% of its family); the newest year grew 1.3% (bottom 9%); capital spending grew 8% a year (top 32%) (its annual reports). Avista Corporation tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+1.2 points a yeartop 15% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth1.3%bottom 9% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending8.0%top 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
2.6/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 26% of 17 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 26th percentile among 17 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Avista Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.0 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 4.8% below the $2.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 3% of its family); net income of $193 million against a prior three-year average of $169 million (bottom 44%); a net margin of 9.8% against 9.4% before (bottom 32%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-4.8%bottom 3% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+14%bottom 44% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+0.5 pointsbottom 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton AVA · research, not advice