AVAAvista Corporation
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$174K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -37% · now 16% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can AVA take a bad year?
Avista Corporation carries $201M of net debt at 0.31× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.31×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.42× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.86
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.3 years
Cash runway · burning $26M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $226M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $25M
- Net debt
- $201M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $641M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $360M
- Debt / equity
- 0.08×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.35×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 19%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −37%
- Below its 52-week high
- 16%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.