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Acuity Brands AYI Return on assets

Return on assets at other companies

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HubbellHUBB
11.8%+0.1pp
Honeywell International logo
Honeywell InternationalHON
5.5%-2.6pp
Johnson Controls International logo
Johnson Controls InternationalJCI
8.7%+2.9pp
Jacobs Solutions logo
Jacobs SolutionsJ
3.3%-0.2pp
Vertiv Holdings Co logo
Vertiv Holdings CoVRT
13.6%+5.8pp
Fortive logo
FortiveFTV
3.8%-0.8pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.1B+4.9%
Gross profit$520.4M+11.2%
Operating income$133.0M+20.7%
Net income$96.8M+24.9%
EPS (diluted)$3.09+26.1%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$272.5M-31.5%
Total debt$808.2M-32.2%
Total equity$2.8B+12.7%
Total assets$4.6B-0.5%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$89.1M+50.0%
CapEx$15.8M+62.9%
Free cash flow$73.3M+47.5%

Valuation

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Market cap$9.63B+0.5%
Enterprise value$10.16B-2.1%
P/E22.4×-0.6×
P/S2.1×-0.3×

Profitability

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Gross margin48.7%+1.8pp
Operating margin13.4%-0.4pp
Net margin9.4%-1.2pp
FCF margin12.2%+0.7pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity16%-1.8pp
Debt / equity0.3×-0.2×
Current ratio2.1×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Acuity Brands’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Acuity Brands’s 10-Q, filed April 2, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Acuity Brands's return on assets?
Acuity Brands (AYI) reported return on assets of 9.4% in Q4 2025.
How has Acuity Brands's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Acuity Brands's return on assets decreased by 8.6% year-over-year, from 10.3% to 9.4%.
What is the long-term trend for Acuity Brands's return on assets?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Acuity Brands's return on assets has grown at a 4.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 7.5% to 9.3%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.