Avista Stock Options
| AVA Stock | USD 36.59 0.24 0.66% |
Avista's latest option contracts expiring on January 17th 2025 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.7. The Avista option chain provides detailed quote and price information for the current Avista option contracts. It shows all of Avista's listed puts, calls, expiration dates, strike prices, and other pricing information.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Avista
Analyzing Avista's in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Avista regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Avista's options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Avista's options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Avista's stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Avista's stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Avista common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Avista stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Avista's stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, Avista's Total Stockholder Equity is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The current year's Common Stock is expected to grow to about 2 B, whereas Common Stock Shares Outstanding is forecasted to decline to about 60.2 M. Avista In The Money Call Balance
When Avista's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Avista stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Avista's options that are 'In the Money' or 'Out of the Money', the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
While 'out-of-the-money' option contracts written on Avista are typically viewed as the more aggressive, there are potential upsides to purchasing these types of options contracts. For one, the cost to buy an 'Out of the Money' option is lower than the cost to buy an 'In the Money' option. This cost-benefit is due to the fact that at the time of the purchase, 'Out of the Money' contracts have no intrinsic value. So, while the potential for a 100% loss is more significant, the cost and risk to enter the trade are lower.
Avista Current Options Market Mood
Avista's open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps Avista Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.
Put-to-Call Volume
Most options investors, including buyers and sellers of Avista's calls and puts, are not very successful. It is estimated that an average options trader loses somewhere between 80% to 90% of the time. Avista's option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.
Rule 16 of the current Avista contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Avista will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0438% per day over the life of the 2025-01-17 option contract. With Avista trading at USD 36.59, that is roughly USD 0.016. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Avista's daily price movement you should consider buying Avista options at the current volatility level of 0.7%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Avista options can give investors a meaningful hedge against losses and, therefore, could be used conservatively to decrease the volatility of your portfolio. However, many options could also amount to little more than gambling, significantly enhancing your overall portfolio risk. One simple example of these aggressive strategies is the sale of "uncovered" Avista calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Avista stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Avista Option Chain
When Avista's strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Avista stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying options that are ITM or OTM, the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
Avista's option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Avista. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Avista. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Avista against a given expiration period. The table below combines all the option information in the form of a chain but before you use it, remember that it entails significant risk and it is not for everyone. | Open Int | Strike Price | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | AVA250117C00025000 | 0 | 25.0 | 7.1 - 17.0 | 7.1 | In |
Call | AVA250117C00030000 | 0 | 30.0 | 5.0 - 10.0 | 5.0 | In |
Call | AVA250117C00035000 | 0 | 35.0 | 1.7 - 7.7 | 1.7 | In |
Call | AVA250117C00040000 | 0 | 40.0 | 0.0 - 3.1 | 3.1 | |
Call | AVA250117C00045000 | 0 | 45.0 | 0.0 - 0.25 | 0.25 | |
Put | AVA250117P00025000 | 0 | 25.0 | 0.0 - 4.8 | 4.8 | |
Put | AVA250117P00030000 | 0 | 30.0 | 0.0 - 2.95 | 2.95 | |
Put | AVA250117P00035000 | 0 | 35.0 | 0.05 - 2.45 | 0.05 | |
Put | AVA250117P00040000 | 0 | 40.0 | 1.35 - 8.1 | 1.35 | In |
Put | AVA250117P00045000 | 0 | 45.0 | 3.0 - 12.9 | 3.0 | In |
Avista Total Stockholder Equity
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Avista Corporate Directors
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| Donald Burke | Independent Director | Profile | |
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| Scott Maw | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Multi-Utilities space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Avista. If investors know Avista will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Avista listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Quarterly Earnings Growth 0.211 | Dividend Share 1.885 | Earnings Share 2.53 | Revenue Per Share | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.037 |
The market value of Avista is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Avista that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Avista's value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Avista's true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Avista's market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Avista's underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Avista's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Avista is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Avista's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.