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Acuity Brands

309.25 USD
-11.95
3.72%
At close Feb 21, 4:00 PM EST
1 day
-3.72%
5 days
-5.65%
1 month
-7.90%
3 months
-3.48%
6 months
27.20%
Year to date
3.59%
1 year
29.84%
5 years
167.29%
10 years
92.34%
 

About: Acuity is a leading industrial technology company that offers lighting, lighting controls, and intelligent building solutions. Acuity Brands designs, manufactures, and brings to market products and services relating to these and other offerings. Acuity Brands has two reportable segments: Acuity Brands Lighting and the Intelligent Spaces Group. ABL sells commercial, architectural, and specialty lighting, including components and control systems. ISG offers building management and audio/visual solutions to help make buildings intelligent.

Employees: 13,200

0
Funds holding %
of 7,139 funds
Analysts bullish %

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

177% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 97 | Existing positions closed: 35

11% more funds holding

Funds holding: 469 [Q3] → 522 (+53) [Q4]

5% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $8.34B [Q3] → $8.79B (+$446M) [Q4]

4% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 174 | Existing positions reduced: 168

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 7 [Q3] → 7 (+0) [Q4]

1.32% less ownership

Funds ownership: 98.43% [Q3] → 97.11% (-1.32%) [Q4]

31% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $15.2M | Put options by funds: $22M

Research analyst outlook

2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target
$336
9%
upside
Avg. target
$358
16%
upside
High target
$380
23%
upside

2 analyst ratings

positive
50%
neutral
50%
negative
0%
Oppenheimer
Christopher Glynn
77% 1-year accuracy
20 / 26 met price target
23%upside
$380
Outperform
Maintained
9 Jan 2025
Wells Fargo
Joseph O'Dea
50% 1-year accuracy
18 / 36 met price target
9%upside
$336
Equal-Weight
Maintained
9 Jan 2025

Financial journalist opinion

Based on 9 articles about AYI published over the past 30 days

Positive
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Atlanta, Jan. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) (the “Company”), a market leading industrial technology company, today announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) increased its quarterly dividend by 13 percent to 17 cents per share from 15 cents per share. The dividend is payable on February 14, 2025, to shareholders of record on February 3, 2025.
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