Acuity Brands AYI Return on assets
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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.