Acuity Brands (Acuity Brands) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 0.22 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

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What is Acuity Brands 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Acuity Brands's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was 0.22.

The historical rank and industry rank for Acuity Brands's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

AYI' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.19 Med: 0.32 Max: 0.71
Current: 0.22

During the past 13 years, Acuity Brands's highest Yield on Cost was 0.71. The lowest was 0.19. And the median was 0.32.

AYI's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
94.44% of 1852 companies
in the Industrial Products industry
Industry Median: 2.075 vs AYI: 0.22

Competitive Comparison of Acuity Brands's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, Acuity Brands's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % 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 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Acuity Brands's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Acuity Brands's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.

Acuity Brands 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Acuity Brands is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost

Dividend Yield %

Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.

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Acuity Brands (Acuity Brands) Business Description

Industry

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Address

1170 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 2300, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30309

Website

https://www.acuitybrands.com

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