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Acuity Inc.

IndustrialsElectronic Equipment
Ticker AYIATLANTA, GAFiscal year ends AugustBook value per share $91.17Diluted shares 31.3M

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) operates as a market-leading industrial technology company serving the lighting, building management, and audio-video sectors. The company's website is located at www.acuityinc.com. Acuity Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in 2001 and changed its corporate name from Acuity Brands, Inc.… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 08-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-05-31
Sales & profitability
$4.35BFY2025
+13.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $4.61B
12.98%FY2025
−1.4 percentage points
Last 12 mo 14.49%
$396.60MFY2025
−6.2% year over year
Last 12 mo $472.30M
15.42%FY2025
−2.3 percentage points
Last 12 mo 16.56%
Cash & financing
$601.40MFY2025
−2.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $722.70M
$533.00MFY2025
−4.0% year over year
Last 12 mo $639.40M
0.33FY2025
Was 0.21× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 0.24
31.6MFY2025
+0.6% year over year
Last 12 mo 31.3M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Acuity Inc. does

In the company’s own words

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) operates as a market-leading industrial technology company serving the lighting, building management, and audio-video sectors. The company's website is located at www.acuityinc.com. Acuity Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in 2001 and changed its corporate name from Acuity Brands, Inc. effective March 26, 2025.

The company operates through two primary business segments: Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS). ABL designs, manufactures, and markets sustainable and intelligent lighting solutions combining luminaires with advanced electronics, including drivers and controls platforms. The segment serves new construction, renovation and retrofit, and maintenance and repair applications across North America and select international markets through independent sales agencies, internal sales representatives, electrical distributors, consumer retailers, and direct corporate accounts. ABL's portfolio encompasses numerous brands including Lithonia Lighting, Juno, Gotham, nLight, eldoLED, and SensorSwitch.

AIS focuses on making spaces smarter, safer, and greener through building management systems and data platforms. The segment operates through three primary brands: Atrius, which provides data accessibility and cloud applications for building performance; Distech Controls, which offers intelligent building management systems for HVAC, refrigeration, lighting, and access control; and QSC, which delivers an integrated audio, video, and control platform. AIS serves retail stores, airports, universities, enterprise campuses, sports venues, and hospitality sectors across North America, Europe, and select international locations, primarily through system integrators.

Acuity Inc. employed approximately 13,800 people as of August 31, 2025, with roughly 4,300 in the United States and 8,200 in Mexico, with remaining employees in Europe, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company operates eighteen manufacturing facilities, including seven in Mexico, six in the United States, three in Canada, and two in Europe, along with nine distribution facilities. Approximately 76 percent of finished goods are manufactured internally, with 24 percent purchased. Net sales initiated outside the United States represented approximately 14 percent of total net sales during fiscal 2025. The company maintains approximately 1,700 total patent assets and invests substantially in research and development to drive product innovation and competitive differentiation.

Company details
Sector
Industrials
Industry (SIC)
Electronic Equipment
Headquarters
ATLANTA, GA
Fiscal year end
August
CIK
1144215
SIC
3640

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-460.65M$921.30M$2.30B$3.69B$5.07B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Acuity Inc. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

492
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$4.93B
held by funds, at market
48.2%
of shares held by funds

Superinvestors in Acuity Inc. · what they did last quarter

Tom GaynerUNCHANGED
Markel Group (Markel-Gayner)
<0.1%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Acuity Inc.’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJH · iShares Trust
0.31%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.02%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.14%of fund net assets
FULLERTHALER BEHAVIORAL SMALL CAP EQUITY
FTHNX · Capitol Series Trust
2.05%of fund net assets
Strategic Advisers Fidelity U.S. Total Stock Fund
FCTDX · Fidelity Rutland Square Trust II
0.10%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Could not be determined for this company: bond issues.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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