Acuity Inc (de)
Acuity Inc (de) (AYI) is listed on NYSE and classified in Electrical Equipment & Parts, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Atlanta, United States and has 13,000 employees. The company is worth $9.5B and trades at 18.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $4.35B in fiscal 2025, up 13.1% from the year before. Net income was $396.6M. The share price is 16.6% below its 52-week high of $380.17. It pays a dividend yielding 0.25%. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $471.01M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 3 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders bought $22.07K of its stock on the open market and sold none.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +50.6% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,494.74▲ +49.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $360.04 | $292.13 | $204.83 | $165.61 | $211.72 | $121.09 | $138.00 | $114.95 | $176.00 | $230.86 | $233.80 | $140.07 | $109.32 | $67.73 | $53.00 | $57.67 | $35.64 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 14.9% a year plus a 0.3% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 23.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 14.9% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TFIITFI International Inc. | $115.00 | 27.7x | 3.5x | 1.63% | 12.41% | $9.45B |
| BAHBooz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp | $78.57 | 11.8x | 7.9x | 3.00% | 68.64% | $9.45B |
| TTEKTetra Tech Inc | $36.81 | 21.2x | 5.1x | 0.79% | 24.30% | $9.42B |
| IESCIES Holdings, Inc. | $220.75 |
| 23.7x |
| 28.7x |
| 21.7x |
| 19.0x |
| 14.9x |
| 25.3x |
| 19.3x |
| 16.6x |
| 13.5x |
| 23.7x |
| 34.8x |
| 45.9x |
| 34.6x |
| 37.1x |
| 24.9x |
| 21.9x |
| 32.0x |
| 17.8x |
| P/S | 1.6x | 2.5x | 2.3x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 2.1x | 1.4x | 1.5x | 1.3x | 2.1x | 3.1x | 3.8x | 2.5x | 2.2x | 1.5x | 1.2x | 1.5x | 0.9x |
| P/B | 3.5x | 4.0x | 3.8x | 3.1x | 2.8x | 3.6x | 2.1x | 2.9x | 2.7x | 4.4x | 6.1x | 7.5x | 5.2x | 4.7x | 3.4x | 2.9x | 3.5x | 2.2x |
| EPS | $12.53 | $13.44 | $10.76 | $11.08 | $8.38 | $6.27 | $8.29 | $8.52 | $7.43 | $6.63 | $5.09 | $4.05 | $2.95 | $2.72 | $2.42 | $1.80 | $2.00 |
| Dividend yield | 0.37% | 0.19% | 0.21% | 0.25% | 0.31% | 0.25% | 0.43% | 0.38% | 0.45% | 0.30% | 0.23% | 0.22% | 0.37% | 0.48% | 0.77% | 0.98% | 0.90% | 1.46% |
| Payout | 7.84% | 5.43% | 4.46% | 4.83% | 4.69% | 6.21% | 8.29% | 6.27% | 6.10% | 7.00% | 7.84% | 10.22% | 12.84% | 17.63% | 19.12% | 21.49% | 28.89% | 26.00% |
| Profit margin | 8.75% | 9.13% | 11.00% | 8.75% | 9.59% | 8.85% | 7.46% | 9.00% | 9.50% | 9.18% | 8.84% | 8.21% | 7.34% | 6.10% | 6.01% | 5.88% | 4.89% | 5.12% |
| ROE | 15.11% | 14.55% | 17.77% | 17.17% | 20.09% | 14.98% | 11.67% | 17.22% | 20.36% | 19.31% | 17.52% | 16.33% | 15.11% | 12.82% | 13.94% | 13.94% | 11.46% | 12.63% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+23.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 44.52% |
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