Acuity Brands, Inc. (AYI): Price and Financial Metrics

AYI POWR Grades

• AYI scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 98.42% of US stocks.
• AYI's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• AYI ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 30th percentile.

AYI Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of ACUITY BRANDS INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.56% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, AYI is more volatile than just 13.47% of stocks we're observing.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for AYI comes in at 10.12% -- higher than that of 82.98% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to AYI, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are CNXC, WTS, DCI, PSN, and FELE.
• Visit AYI's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.acuitybrands.com.

AYI Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, AYI's EV/EBIT ratio is 21.79% lower, now standing at 12.2.
• Over the past 243 months, AYI's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AYI.

AYI Growth Metrics

The year over year revenue growth rate now stands at 15.19%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 3.1%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -10.96%.

Over the past 34 months, AYI's revenue has gone up $533,300,000.

The table below shows AYI's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	4,077.9	419.2	371.3
2022-09-30	4,006.1	316.3	384
2022-06-30	3,888.5	258.2	366.7
2022-03-31	3,727.6	323.4	346.7
2021-12-31	3,595.1	368.5	334.3
2021-09-30	3,461	408.7	306.3

AYI's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• AYI has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 98.26% of graded US stocks.
• AYI's asset turnover comes in at 0.997 -- ranking 10th of 53 Electrical Equipment stocks.
• AME, RRX, and BYRN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AYI.

The table below shows AYI's key quality metrics over time.