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Acuity Brands, Inc. (AYI) Company Bio

Acuity Brands designs, produces, and distributes lighting solutions, components, and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications in North America and internationally. The company was founded in 2001 and is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.

AYI Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

We started the process of determining a valid price forecast for Acuity Brands Inc with a discounted cash flow analysis -- the results of which can be found in the table below. To summarize, we found that Acuity Brands Inc ranked in the 68st percentile in terms of potential gain offered. Specifically, our DCF analysis implies the stock is trading below its fair value by an estimated 72.83%. The most interesting components of our discounted cash flow analysis for Acuity Brands Inc ended up being:

• The stock's equity weight, or the proportion of capital from equity relative to debt, is 92. Its equity weight surpasses that of 80.98% of free cash flow generating stocks in the Industrials sector.
• The business' balance sheet suggests that 8% of the company's capital is sourced from debt; this is greater than merely 23.36% of the free cash flow producing stocks we're observing.
• AYI's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 3%; for context, that number is higher than 46.28% of tickers in our DCF set.

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