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Acuity Brands (Acuity Brands) Operating Income : $523 Mil (TTM As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Acuity Brands Operating Income?

Acuity Brands's Operating Income for the three months ended in Feb. 2024 was $117 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $523 Mil.

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. Acuity Brands's Operating Income for the three months ended in Feb. 2024 was $117 Mil. Acuity Brands's Revenue for the three months ended in Feb. 2024 was $906 Mil. Therefore, Acuity Brands's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 12.93%.

Good Sign:

Acuity Brands Inc operating margin is expanding. Margin expansion is usually a good sign.

Acuity Brands's 5-Year average Growth Rate for Operating Margin % was 0.30% per year.

Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition. Acuity Brands's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 13.59%. Acuity Brands's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 65.57%.


Acuity Brands Operating Income Historical Data

The historical data trend for Acuity Brands's Operating Income can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Acuity Brands Operating Income Chart

Acuity Brands Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Operating Income
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Acuity Brands Quarterly Data
May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24
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Acuity Brands Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $523 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Acuity Brands  (NYSE:AYI) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

Acuity Brands's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as:

ROC % (Q: Feb. 2024 )
=NOPAT/Average Invested Capital
=Operating Income * ( 1 - Tax Rate % )/( (Invested Capital (Q: Nov. 2023 ) + Invested Capital (Q: Feb. 2024 ))/ count )
=468.4 * ( 1 - 24.15% )/( (2611.6 + 2616.5)/ 2 )
=355.2814/2614.05
=13.59 %

where

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Feb. 2024) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

Acuity Brands's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as:

ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %(Q: Feb. 2024 )
=EBIT/Average of (Net fixed Assets + Net Working Capital)
=EBIT/Average of (Property, Plant and Equipment+Net Working Capital)
     Q: Nov. 2023  Q: Feb. 2024
=EBIT/( ( (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) + (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) )/ count )
=496.4/( ( (372.7 + max(379.5, 0)) + (372.2 + max(389.6, 0)) )/ 2 )
=496.4/( ( 752.2 + 761.8 )/ 2 )
=496.4/757
=65.57 %

where Working Capital is:

Working Capital(Q: Nov. 2023 )
=(Accounts Receivable + Total Inventories + Other Current Assets) - (Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense + Defer. Rev. + Other Current Liabilities)
=(517.1 + 365.3 + 78.4) - (339 + 13.3 + 229)
=379.5

Working Capital(Q: Feb. 2024 )
=(Accounts Receivable + Total Inventories + Other Current Assets) - (Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense + Defer. Rev. + Other Current Liabilities)
=(494.9 + 375.8 + 97.2) - (330.4 + 16.2 + 231.7)
=389.6

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Feb. 2024) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

Acuity Brands's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %=Operating Income (Q: Feb. 2024 )/Revenue (Q: Feb. 2024 )
=117.1/905.9
=12.93 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

4. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Operating Income growth rate using Operating Income per share data.


Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important screening filter for GuruFocus. GuruFocus's Buffett-Munger screener requires that the profit margin is either consistent or expanding. The Model Portfolio of the Buffett-Munger screener has outperformed the market every year since inception in 2009.


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Acuity Brands (Acuity Brands) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1170 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2300, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30309
Acuity Brands Inc is the parent company of Acuity Brands Lighting and other subsidiaries, which provide lighting products for commercial, institutional, industrial, and residential applications. These products include luminaires, lighting controls, lighting components, and integrated lighting systems that use a combination of light sources. Customers include electrical distributors, electric utilities, retail home improvement centers, and lighting showrooms. A majority of the firms' revenue is generated in the United States.
Executives
Dianne B Mills officer: SVP & Chief HR Officer C/O ACUITY BRANDS, INC., 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE, STE 2300, ATLANTA GA 30309
Barry R Goldman officer: SVP & General Counsel 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE, SUITE 2300, ATLANTA GA 30309
Laura O'shaughnessy director C/O VROOM, INC., 1375 BROADWAY, FLOOR 11, NEW YORK NY 10018
Karen J Holcom officer: Interim CFO 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE, SUITE 2400, ATLANTA GA 30309
Michael J Bender director 3980 BAUGHMAN GRANT ROAD, NEW ALBANY OH 43054
Marcia J Avedon director C/O INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY, 800-E BEATY STREET, DAVIDSON NC 28036
Mark Sachleben director C/O NEW RELIC, INC., 188 SPEAR STREET, STE. 1200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Peter C Browning director GMS INC., 100 CRESCENT CENTRE PARKWAY, SUITE 800, TUCKER GA 30084
Mary A Winston director 557 BROADWAY, C/O SCHOLASTIC CORP, NEW YORK NY 10012
Maya Leibman director 4333 AMON CARTER BLVD, FORT WORTH TX 76155
Neil Ashe director, officer: President & CEO C/O ACUITY BRANDS, INC., 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE, STE 2300, ATLANTA GA 30309
Robert F Mccullough director 1170 PEACHTREE STREET, NE, SUITE 2300, ATLANTA GA 300309
Ray M Robinson director 1170 PEACHTREE STREET NE, SUITE 2300, ATLANTA GA 30309
Dillard George Douglas Jr director 1170 PEACHTREE STREET NE, SUITE 2300, ATLANTA GA 30309
W. Patrick Battle director 1170 PEACHTREE STREET NE, SUITE 2300, ATLANTA X1 30309