NYSE:AYI - Acuity Brands Stock Price, Price Target & More

Acuity Brands trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "AYI."

Acuity Brands declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, March 30th. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.13 per share on Tuesday, May 1st. This represents a $0.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.43%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, April 16th. View Acuity Brands' Dividend History.

Acuity Brands declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Wednesday, April 4th 2018, which allows the company to buyback 6,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 4th. The electronics maker reported $1.89 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.95 by $0.06. The electronics maker earned $832.10 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $799.33 million. Acuity Brands had a net margin of 9.68% and a return on equity of 20.56%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 3.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.77 earnings per share. View Acuity Brands' Earnings History.

Acuity Brands is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, July, 3rd 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Acuity Brands.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Acuity Brands' shares. Their forecasts range from $105.00 to $245.00. On average, they anticipate Acuity Brands' share price to reach $177.8182 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Acuity Brands.

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Media stories about AYI stock have been trending somewhat positive on Monday, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Acuity Brands earned a daily sentiment score of 0.22 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the electronics maker an impact score of 47.51 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.

Acuity Brands' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.73%), Atlanta Capital Management Co. L L C (4.19%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (3.33%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (2.52%), American Century Companies Inc. (2.09%) and New York State Common Retirement Fund (1.14%). Company insiders that own Acuity Brands stock include George Douglas Dillard Jr, Mark A Black, Peter C Browning, Ray M Robinson, Richard K Reece, Vernon J Nagel and W Patrick Battle. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Acuity Brands.

AYI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Millennium Management LLC, Bamco Inc. NY, Villere ST Denis J & Co. LLC, Blair William & Co. IL, Franklin Resources Inc., Artisan Partners Limited Partnership, Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. KS and United Capital Financial Advisers LLC. Company insiders that have sold Acuity Brands company stock in the last year include Mark A Black and Peter C Browning. View Insider Buying and Selling for Acuity Brands.

AYI stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wells Fargo & Company MN, Eaton Vance Management, FIL Ltd, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Scopia Capital Management LP, Schroder Investment Management Group, Neuberger Berman Group LLC and Nuveen Asset Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Acuity Brands stock in the last two years include George Douglas Dillard Jr and W Patrick Battle. View Insider Buying and Selling for Acuity Brands.

Shares of AYI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AYI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $121.41.

Acuity Brands has a market capitalization of $5.12 billion and generates $3.51 billion in revenue each year. The electronics maker earns $321.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $7.96 on an earnings per share basis. Acuity Brands employs 12,500 workers across the globe.

Acuity Brands' mailing address is 1170 PEACHTREE STREET N.E. SUITE 2300, ATLANTA GA, 30309. The electronics maker can be reached via phone at 404-853-1400 or via email at [email protected]