Avista Corporation (AVA) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review provides you an in-depth strategic SWOT analysis of the company’s businesses and operations. The profile has been compiled by GlobalData to bring to you a clear and an unbiased view of the company’s key strengths and weaknesses and the potential opportunities and threats. The profile helps you formulate strategies that augment your business by enabling you to understand your partners, customers and competitors better.

The profile contains critical company information including:

- Business description – A detailed description of the company’s operations and business divisions.
- Corporate strategy – Analyst’s summarization of the company’s business strategy.
- SWOT Analysis – A detailed analysis of the company’s strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.
- Company history – Progression of key events associated with the company.
- Major products and services – A list of major products, services and brands of the company.
- Key competitors – A list of key competitors to the company.
- Key employees – A list of the key executives of the company.
- Executive biographies – A brief summary of the executives’ employment history.
- Key operational heads – A list of personnel heading key departments/functions.
- Important locations and subsidiaries – A list and contact details of key locations and subsidiaries of the company.
- Detailed financial ratios for the past five years – The latest financial ratios derived from the annual financial statements published by the company with 5 years history.
- Interim ratios for the last five interim periods – The latest financial ratios derived from the quarterly/semi-annual financial statements published by the company for 5 interims history.

Highlights

Avista Corporation (Avista) is an electric and natural gas utility. The company produces, transmits, and distributes electricity; and supplies natural gas on retail and wholesale basis. It sources electricity from its facilities and contracted hydroelectric, thermal and wind generation facilities, and other contracts for power purchases and exchanges. Avista procures natural gas from various supply basins over varying time periods with a portfolio of forward fixed price purchases, index and spot market purchases on wholesale basis by using physical and financial derivative instruments. The company is connected to various supply basins in the western US and Canada through firm capacity transportation rights on six pipeline networks. It serves residential, commercial, industrial, and city, state and federal governmental customers in the US. Avista is headquartered in Spokane, Washington, the US.

Avista Corporation Key Recent Developments

Mar 20,2017: Avista Issues Request for Proposals for Solar Energy Project
Feb 28,2017: UTC order denying Reconsideration/Rehearing concludes Avista's 2016 Washington general rate cases
Feb 22,2017: Avista Corp. Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016, and Initiates 2017 Earnings Guidance
Dec 28,2016: Avista receives approval of the all-party settlement in Idaho electric rate case
Dec 23,2016: Avista files for reconsideration and rehearing of 2016 Washington general rate cases

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