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Acuity Brands (Acuity Brands) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.99 (As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Acuity Brands Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Acuity Brands's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $20 Mil. Acuity Brands's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $563 Mil. Acuity Brands's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $588 Mil. Acuity Brands's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 0.99.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

AYI' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.59   Med: 0.9   Max: 1.07
Current: 0.96

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Acuity Brands was 1.07. The lowest was 0.59. And the median was 0.90.

AYI's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
64.62% of 2301 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 1.74 vs AYI: 0.96

Acuity Brands Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA 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 Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Acuity Brands Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.65 1.05 1.07 0.97 1.04

Acuity Brands Quarterly Data
May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24
Debt-to-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.05 0.89 1.10 0.91 0.99

Competitive Comparison of Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Acuity Brands Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Acuity Brands's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(19.7 + 571.1) / 567.8
=1.04

Acuity Brands's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(19.6 + 563.4) / 588
=0.99

* 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.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Feb. 2024) EBITDA data.


Acuity Brands  (NYSE:AYI) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.


Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.


Acuity Brands Debt-to-EBITDA Related Terms

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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

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