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

AYI POWR Grades

• AYI scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 98.47% of US stocks.
• AYI's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• AYI ranks lowest in Sentiment; there it ranks in the 28th percentile.

AYI Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of ACUITY BRANDS INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 86.8% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The volatility of ACUITY BRANDS INC's share price is greater than that of merely 10.43% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• ACUITY BRANDS INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 8.17%, greater than the shareholder yield of 81.83% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to ACUITY BRANDS INC are CNXC, DCI, WTS, FELE, and RHI.
• 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 price/earnings ratio is 20% lower, now standing at 16.
• Over the past 243 months, AYI's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 3.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AYI.

AYI Growth Metrics

Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 26.21%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at -1.7%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 15.19%.

Over the past 33 months, AYI's revenue has gone up $431,300,000.

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
2022-09-30	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
2021-06-30	3,359.5	442.7	281.9

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.