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Company Dossier · Industrials

Acuity Brands

AYINYSEElectrical Components & EquipmentUSMid capWebsite ↗
  • Russell 1000
  • MidCap 400

What Acuity Brands is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 23, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to May 31, 2026: $4.61 billion, up 11% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to May 31, 2026: $0.64 billion, up 25% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to May 31, 2026: $0.08 billion, up 14% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to August 31, 2025: $0.12 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Long-term debt issued in the fiscal year to August 31, 2025: $0.60 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (October 1, 2026): sentiment 0.40 on a −1 to +1 scale (mixed), confidence 0.70 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Latest annual report (filed October 27, 2025): 2 risk factors added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $1.1 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 640 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+56 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 11 (12 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

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Credit

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No bond term sheets or tagged debt on file for Acuity Brands yet.

Layoffs

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0 actions in the last 12 months · 0 workers in WARN notices · latest Mar 9, 2012

  1. Mar 9, 2012SEC filing
    8-K Item 2.05 (exit or disposal costs)

WARN notices cover layoffs above the federal size thresholds in the states Palanor reads; they are not every layoff. A WARN notice filed near an 8-K Item 2.05 of Acuity Brands is linked to it and counted once. Methodology and coverage

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

Acuity Brands: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$0.64BData to May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Acuity Brands: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Acuity Brands: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$4.6BData to May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

Acuity Brands: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.12BData to Aug 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Acuity Brands: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Aug 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Acuity Brands: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
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Acuity Brands: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

18.0Data to May 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

Acuity Brands: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.40Data 22 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Acuity Brands: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.70Data 22 days ago
ImageDataPalanor calculation
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Acuity Brands: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

2.0Data to Oct 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

Acuity Brands: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

11.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
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Acuity Brands: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$1.1MData 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

Acuity Brands: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

640.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

In the news

Headlines that name Acuity Brands, with the publisher and a link. The tone is read from each headline’s own words, never from a summary of the article.

30 days
2 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative
90 days
2 headlines
0% positive · 0% negative

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Oct 13, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: LUMINAIRE AND METHODOLOGIES FOR COMBINED VISIBLE ILLUMINATION AND DEACTIVATION OF BACTERIAUS 12758675
  2. Sep 29, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  3. Sep 22, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FAULT MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTIONUS 12742810
  4. Sep 8, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: MODULAR TRACK LIGHTING SYSTEMUS 12729821
  5. Sep 1, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: EMERGENCY LIGHTING SYSTEMUS 12726043
  6. Jul 21, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: REPEATER CREATION FOR BATTERY POWERED AND LOW POWER DEVICESUS 12689966
  7. May 13, 20268-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  8. Jan 23, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  9. Oct 27, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)2 risk factors added, 0 removed
  10. Apr 19, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (STEPTOE LLP)first_quarter 2025 · $0.0 million
  11. Feb 13, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  12. Jan 24, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  13. Jan 20, 2025Lobbying
    Lobbying report (STEPTOE LLP)fourth_quarter 2024
  14. Jan 17, 2025Trademark
    Trademark application: GENERAL TECHNOLOGIES
  15. Jan 17, 2025Trademark
    Trademark application: CHARTAI
  16. Nov 27, 20248-K
    Material agreement signedItem 1.01
  17. Oct 28, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 1 removed
  18. Oct 21, 2024Lobbying
    Lobbying report (STEPTOE LLP)third_quarter 2024 · $0.0 million
  19. Oct 26, 202310-K
    Annual report (10-K)4 risk factors added, 2 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Woodward, Inc. WWD$4.2B$0.4BJun 30, 2026
Regal Rexnord RRX$6.1B$0.5BJun 30, 2026
Ametek AME$7.9B$1.8BJun 30, 2026
Rockwell Automation ROK$9.0B—Jun 30, 2026
Vertiv VRT$11.5B$2.9BJun 30, 2026
Flowserve FLS$4.6B$0.4BJun 30, 2026
Copart CPRT$4.7B$1.3BJul 31, 2026
SiteOne Landscape Supply SITE$4.7B$0.3BMar 29, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1144215
Wikidata
Q4677870

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 23, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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