Acuity Brands stock analysis
Acuity Brands (AQ8) Stock Price & Analysis
AQ8 Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 294.00 - EUR 300.00
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 224.00 - EUR 328.00
- Previous Close
- EUR 292.00
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 5
- Market Cap
- EUR 8.83B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 10.38B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 636.30M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 808.90M
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 19.0
- Beta
- 0.40
- Next Earnings
- Jan 13, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 4.52
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 0.24%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Strong Cash Generation
Strong operating cash flow gives Acuity flexibility to fund product development, reduce debt, return capital, and pursue growth without relying heavily on external financing. The year-over-year improvement also supports confidence that current earnings are converting into usable cash.
AIS Growth And Margins
Acuity Intelligent Spaces is becoming a more important growth and profit engine, with rapid sales expansion and widening margins. Its controls, software, and connected-building offerings can improve mix and deepen customer relationships as integrated intelligent-space adoption expands.
Improving Leverage
Substantial debt repayment improves financial resilience and reduces the obligations associated with the QSC acquisition. Lower leverage should preserve capital-allocation flexibility, allowing Acuity to support innovation, acquisitions, and shareholder returns while better absorbing operating volatility.
Bears Say
Flat-to-down ABL Market
A subdued market for Acuity’s core lighting business could constrain organic revenue growth even if the company continues taking share. A flat-to-down backdrop also increases the importance of execution, new vertical penetration, and corporate-account wins to sustain momentum.
AIS Memory-cost Pressure
Higher memory costs create a material margin headwind for the faster-growing AIS segment, potentially limiting operating leverage despite continued improvement in profit dollars. The pressure is expected across fiscal 2027, making pricing, product mix, and cost management important to earnings durability.
Input-cost And Trade Exposure
Persistent steel and freight inflation can pressure ABL profitability if price increases do not fully offset higher costs. Changes in trade policy add uncertainty to cost planning and may require ongoing productivity actions, pricing discipline, and portfolio adjustments to protect margins.
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Company Description
Acuity Brands
Acuity Brands, Inc. operates as a global provider of advanced lighting and building management solutions, serving markets both within North America and internationally. The company's operations are divided into two principal segments: Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL), and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG). The ABL division offers a comprehensive portfolio of commercial, architectural, and specialized lighting products, alongside control systems and related components, designed for a variety of indoor and outdoor applications. This segment markets its offerings under numerous well-known brands, including Lithonia Lighting, Holophane, Peerless, Gotham, Mark Architectural Lighting, Winona Lighting, Juno, Indy, Aculux, Healthcare Lighting, Hydrel, American Electric Lighting, Sunoptics, eldoLED, nLight, Sensor Switch, IOTA, A-Light, Cyclone, Eureka, Lumniaire LED, Luminis, Dark to Light, and RELOC Wiring Solutions. Its diverse customer base for lighting products spans electrical distributors, major retail home improvement chains, utility providers, national account clients, online retailers, dedicated lighting showrooms, and energy service firms. In contrast, the ISG segment focuses on sophisticated building management systems and location-aware applications, delivered through its Distech Controls, Atrius, and Rockpile Ventures brands. This includes serving system integrators, as well as end-users such as retail establishments, airports, and large corporate campuses. Established in 2001, Acuity Brands, Inc. maintains its corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Electrical Equipment & Parts
- CEO
- Neil Ashe
- Employees
- 13,900
- Website
- www.acuityinc.com
- Address
- 1170 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA, 30309, US
Acuity Brands (AQ8) Earnings & Revenues
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Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was strongly positive overall. Acuity reported higher consolidated sales, adjusted operating profit, margins, EPS and cash flow; AIS delivered particularly strong growth and profitability; the company reduced debt, repaid the QSC financing, increased its dividend and repurchased shares. Management also highlighted share gains, product innovation, AI initiatives, data-center opportunities and fiscal 2027 sales and EPS growth expectations. The principal challenges were ABL's slight sales and operating-profit declines, a flat-to-down low-single-digit market outlook for ABL, input-cost inflation and an expected couple of hundred basis points of gross-margin impact from memory costs in AIS.
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Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 15 | 6 | 1 |
| Technical Analysis | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Moving Averages | 12 | 0 | 0 |
