Acuity Brands is an electrical equipment & parts business based in the US. Acuity Brands shares (AYI.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $246.86 – a decrease of 0.75% over the previous day. Acuity Brands employs 12,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $3.9 billion.
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Over the last 12 months, Acuity Brands's shares have ranged in value from as little as $148.9816 up to $272.74. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Acuity Brands's is 1.487. This would suggest that Acuity Brands's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Historical closes compared with the last close of $246.86
| 1 week (2024-04-11) | -4.16% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-03-18) | -6.20% |
| 3 months (2024-01-18) | 7.09% |
| 6 months (2023-10-18) | 49.56% |
| 1 year (2023-04-18) | 52.19% |
| 3 years (2021-04-18) | 42.04% |
| 5 years (2019-04-17) | 73.31% |
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Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Acuity Brands P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA
Acuity Brands's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 23x. In other words, Acuity Brands stocks trade at around 23x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Acuity Brands's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.8565. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Acuity Brands's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Acuity Brands's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $602 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Acuity Brands's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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