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Acuity Inc. (de) AYI

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$4.3B

▲ 13.1% YoY

Net income

$396.6M

▼ 6.2% YoY

Free cash flow

$533.0M

▼ 4.0% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Acuity Inc. develops products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video, and control platform. As of August 31, 2025, the company employed approximately 13,800 employees, of which approximately 4,300 were employed in the United States and approximately 8,200 were employed in Mexico. The company operates through two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Acuity Intelligent Spaces. Acuity Inc. was incorporated in 2001 under the laws of the State of Delaware, and effective March 26, 2025 changed its corporate name from Acuity Brands, Inc. to Acuity Inc.

Written from the business description in ACUITY INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 October 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 4.3B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 4.3 · Net income 0.4

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+2.7%

+5.5%

+4.8%

+6.8%

Net income

+1.1%

+9.8%

+6.0%

+11.3%

EPS, diluted

+4.2%

+14.9%

+9.4%

+13.8%

Dividend / share

+8.3%

+4.9%

+2.4%

+1.6%

Returned to shareholders

−36.1%

+9.1%

+19.9%

+5.9%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.5% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +9.8%, earnings per share at +14.9%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

9 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 13.0% · Net 9.1%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 15.5%

Gross margin47.8%

Operating margin13.0%

Net margin9.1%

Return on assets9.3%

EBITDAUSD 697.0M

Each USD of equity produced 16 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 139.1M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 533.0

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends 20.6 · Net buybacks 118.5

Dividends paidUSD 20.6M

Net buybacksUSD 118.5M

Share of profit35.1%

Consecutive raises2 years

USD 20.6M in dividends and USD 118.5M in buybacks — 35% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 4.8B

EquityUSD 2.7B

CashUSD 422.5M

Gross debtUSD 896.8M

Net debtUSD 474.3M

Current ratio1.95×

Net debt stands at 17% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009
Revenue $B	4.3	3.8	4.0	4.0	3.5	3.3	3.7	3.7	3.5	3.3	2.7	2.4	2.1	1.9	1.8	1.6	1.7
Operating income $B	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
EBITDA $B	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Income tax $B	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
Net income $B	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Free cash flow $B	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
EPS, diluted $	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 / sh $	0.66	0.58	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52	0.52
Payout %	5	4	5	5	6	8	6	6	7	8	10	13	18	19	21	28	25
ROE %	15.5	19.2	17.6	19.4	14.7	12.3	18.2	20.7	19.3	19.3	17.6	16.3	13.9	14.6	14.5	11.6	12.6
Shares out B	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.04	·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityElectric Lighting & Wiring Equipment

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inDelaware

Fiscal year endsAugust 31

Data on record since2009