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

AYI POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where AYI ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 98.79% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for AYI is in Sentiment, which has been heading up over the past 47 weeks.
• AYI's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 47.43% of US stocks).

AYI Stock Summary

• AYI's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 542.37 -- higher than 94.22% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• Of note is the ratio of Acuity Brands Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 84.38% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 20.76%, Acuity Brands Inc's debt growth rate surpasses 78.12% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Acuity Brands Inc are SAM, SKX, CVCO, FELE, and PSN.
• 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/sales ratio is 2; this is 17.65% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• Over the past 240 months, AYI's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 7.
• AYI's price/sales ratio has moved up 1.7 over the prior 240 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for AYI.

AYI Growth Metrics

• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 15.55%.
• Its year over year price growth rate is now at 115.01%.
• The 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -49.71%.

AYI's revenue has moved up $652,800,000 over the prior 70 months.

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
2021-06-30	3,359.5	442.7	281.9
2021-03-31	3,236	502.7	256.6
2020-12-31	3,283.6	499.1	250.9
2020-09-30	3,326.3	504.8	248.3
2020-06-30	3,373.2	561	270.7
2020-03-31	3,544.6	521.1	298.7

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 98.81% of graded US stocks.
• AYI's asset turnover comes in at 0.974 -- ranking 10th of 52 Electrical Equipment stocks.
• AME, NOVT, and RBC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with AYI.

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