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

AYI POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where AYI ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 98.93% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for AYI is in Momentum, which has been heading down over the past 161 days.
• AYI ranks lowest in Momentum; there it ranks in the 17th percentile.

AYI Stock Summary

• AYI has a higher market value than 77% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $7,258,925,373.
• With a one year PEG ratio of 75.82, 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 73.39% of US stocks.
• Of note is the ratio of Acuity Brands Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 85.16% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Acuity Brands Inc are DECK, DCI, BLD, YETI, and KNSL.
• 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

• 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 price growth rate is now at -69.89%.
• The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 56.53%.
• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at -47.11%.

Over the past 70 months, AYI's revenue has gone up $637,500,000.

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
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
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

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.