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Acuity Inc.

IndustrialsElectronic Equipment
Ticker AYIATLANTA, GAFiscal year ends AugustBook value per share $95.48Diluted shares 31.2M

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is an industrial technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and audio, video, and control platforms. Its two reportable segments are Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL), which supplies luminaires, drivers, and controls for… From the company’s description.

In fiscal 2026, Acuity Inc. reported revenue of $4.64B, up 6.8% from fiscal 2025, and net income of $531.30M. Its operating margin was 15.4%, and operations generated $825.60M in cash.

Fiscal year 2026 · ends 08-31Changes are against fiscal 2025
Sales & profitability
$4.64BFY2026
+6.8% year over year
15.38%FY2026
+2.4 percentage points
$531.30MFY2026
+34.0% year over year
18.48%FY2026
+3.1 percentage points
Cash & financing
$825.60MFY2026
+37.3% year over year
$747.90MFY2026
+40.3% year over year
0.23FY2026
Was 0.33× a year earlier
31.2MFY2026
−1.5% year over year

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.

What Acuity Inc. does

In the company’s own words

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is an industrial technology company that designs, manufactures, and sells lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and audio, video, and control platforms. Its two reportable segments are Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL), which supplies luminaires, drivers, and controls for construction, renovation, retrofit, and maintenance applications, and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), which offers building-management systems, cloud software, and audio-video and control technologies. ABL sells mainly through independent sales agencies, electrical distributors, retailers, internal representatives, and direct corporate and OEM relationships; AIS primarily serves customers through system integrators. Customers operate across commercial, institutional, industrial, and other settings, including retail, airports, universities, enterprise campuses, sports venues, and hospitality. Major brands include Lithonia Lighting, nLight, Distech Controls, Atrius, and QSC. In fiscal 2026, Acuity employed approximately 13,900 people and operated 18 manufacturing facilities. Its website is www.acuityinc.com.

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 2012–2026 · USD
$-464.18M$928.36M$2.32B$3.71B$5.11B201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

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
48.6%
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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