Acuity Brands is an electrical equipment & parts business based in the US. Acuity Brands shares (AYI) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $300.20 – an increase of 11.29% over the previous week. Acuity Brands employs 12,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $3.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $300.20 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $156.56 - $298.03 |
| 50-day moving average | $248.89 |
| 200-day moving average | $246.10 |
| Wall St. target price | $287.68 |
| PE ratio | 22.3712 |
| Dividend yield | $0.56 (0.22%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $12.31 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $300.2 from 2024-10-02
| 1 week (2024-09-26) | 11.29% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-09-03) | 21.99% |
| 3 months (2024-07-03) | 23.38% |
| 6 months (2024-04-03) | 13.42% |
| 1 year (2023-10-03) | 79.35% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-10-03) | 88.04% |
| 3 years (2021-09-30) | 73.16% |
| 5 years (2019-10-03) | 152.16% |
Valuing Acuity Brands stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Acuity Brands's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Acuity Brands's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 22x. In other words, Acuity Brands shares trade at around 22x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Acuity Brands's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.6413. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
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 share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Acuity Brands's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $612.9 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Acuity Brands's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $3.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 14.89% |
| Gross profit TTM | $1.7 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 9.14% |
| Return on equity TTM | 18.3% |
| Profit margin | 10.12% |
| Book value | $74.17 |
| Market Capitalization | $8.5 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 3.94% of net profits
Recently Acuity Brands has paid out, on average, around 3.94% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.22% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Acuity Brands shareholders could enjoy a 0.22% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Acuity Brands's case, that would currently equate to about $0.56 per share.
While Acuity Brands's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Acuity Brands is investing more in its future growth.
Acuity Brands's most recent dividend payout was on 31 October 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 17 October 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Acuity Brands's shares were split on 1 May 2008.
Over the last 12 months, Acuity Brands's shares have ranged in value from as little as $156.5581 up to $298.0278. 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 1.405. 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).
Acuity Brands, Inc. provides lighting, lighting controls, building management system, location-aware applications in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL); and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG). The ABL segment provides commercial, architectural, and specialty lighting solutions, as well as lighting controls and components for various indoor and outdoor applications under the A-Light, Aculux, American Electric Lighting, Cyclone, Dark to Light, eldoLED, Eureka, Gotham, Healthcare Lighting, Holophane, Hydrel, Indy, IOTA, Juno, Lithonia Lighting, Luminaire LED, Luminis, Mark Architectural Lighting, nLight, OPTOTRONIC, Peerless, RELOCWiring Solutions, and Sensor Switch. This segment serves electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, electric utilities, national accounts, original equipment manufacturers, digital retailers, lighting showrooms, and energy service companies. The ISG segment offers building management solutions, such as products for controlling heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, shades, refrigeration, and building access that deliver end-to-end optimization of those building systems; and building management software that enhances building system management and automates labor intensive tasks. This segment serves system integrators, as well as retail stores, airports, and enterprise campuses.
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