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

AYI POWR Grades

• AYI scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 99.21% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for AYI is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 177 days.
• AYI's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 10.42% of US stocks).

AYI Stock Summary

• With a one year PEG ratio of 354.92, ACUITY BRANDS INC is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 91.98% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of ACUITY BRANDS INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.6% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for AYI comes in at 9.01% -- higher than that of 80.82% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to ACUITY BRANDS INC, a group of peers worth examining would be MYRG, DCI, MYE, JBSS, and WTS.
• AYI's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit ACUITY BRANDS INC's official web site, go to www.acuitybrands.com.

AYI Valuation Summary

• AYI's price/earnings ratio is 13.7; this is 26.34% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• AYI's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 0.4 over the prior 243 months.

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.