The Mysterious Tale of "America's No. 1 Retirement Stock"
This factory of 53,000 employees, in Burbank, CA, was camouflaged to look like a sleepy suburb (with the help of artists, set designers, and painters from nearby Hollywood movie studios). The mysterious company behind this disappearing act is now being called "America's No. 1 Retirement Stock".
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 8.19 |
| Profit Margin | 0.08 |
| Return on Assets | 0.07 |
| Return on Equity | 0.13 |
| Revenue | 3,283,599,872 |
| Earnings Per Share | 6.40 |
| Revenue Per Share | 84.14 |
| Gross Profit | 1,403,600,000 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -0.05 |
General
| Name | Acuity Brands, Inc |
| Ticker | AYI |
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Industrials |
| Industry | Electrical Equipment & Parts |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | August |
| Full Time Employees | 11,500 |
About Acuity Brands, Inc
Acuity Brands, Inc. provides lighting and building management solutions and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications in North America and internationally. The company offers lighting and control products and solutions, including recessed, surface, and suspended lighting; down, decorative, emergency and exit, track, day, special-use, street and roadway, parking garage, tunnel, underwater, area pedestrian, flood, decorative site, and landscape lighting; occupancy sensors; photo controls; relay panels; architectural dimming panels; and integrated lighting controls systems. It also provides building management systems, lighting, lighting controls, and location aware applications; and light emitting diode drivers, power supplies, modular wiring, sensors, glass, and inverters, as well as services across applications that primarily relate to monitoring and controlling lighting systems through network technologies and the commissioning of control systems. The company markets its products under the Lithonia Lighting, Holophane, Peerless, Gotham, Mark Architectural Lighting, Winona Lighting, Juno, Indy, Aculux, Healthcare Lighting, Hydrel, American Electric Lighting, Sunoptics, eldoLED, Distech Controls, nLight, ROAM, Sensor Switch, IOTA, A-light, Cyclone, Eureka, Luminaire LED, Luminis, Dark to Light, RELOC Wiring Solutions, DGLogik, and Atrius brands. It serves electrical distributors, retail home improvement centers, electric utilities, national accounts, system integrators, utility distributors, value-added resellers, digital retailers, government entities and municipalities, lighting showrooms, developers, original equipment manufacturers, and energy service companies, as well as the new construction, renovation, and maintenance and repair markets. Acuity Brands, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dividend
Acuity Brands, Inc pays out a dividend of $0.52 per share, with a dividend yield of 0.23%.
AYI's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on February 1, 2021.
They pay out 6.37% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| May 1, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Feb 14, 2024 | $0.15 |
| Nov 1, 2023 | $0.13 |
| Aug 1, 2023 | $0.13 |
| May 1, 2023 | $0.13 |
| Feb 14, 2023 | $0.13 |
| Nov 1, 2022 | $0.13 |
| Aug 1, 2022 | $0.13 |
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