Short interest in Avista Corp (NYSE:AVA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.53M to 2.58M. This put 4.77% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Avista gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Avista's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 455.25K shares traded per day, it would take 5.66 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.