Acuity (AYI) – Investment Analysts’ Recent Ratings Changes

Several analysts have recently updated their ratings and price targets for Acuity (NYSE: AYI):

• 11/25/2025 – Acuity had its “buy (b-)” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Weiss Ratings.
• 11/19/2025 – Acuity was upgraded by analysts at Weiss Ratings from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating.
• 11/18/2025 – Acuity was downgraded by analysts at Zacks Research from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating.
• 11/15/2025 – Acuity was upgraded by analysts at Wall Street Zen from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating.
• 11/13/2025 – Acuity had its “hold (c+)” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Weiss Ratings.
• 11/7/2025 – Acuity was downgraded by analysts at Weiss Ratings from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating.
• 11/1/2025 – Acuity was downgraded by analysts at Wall Street Zen from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating.
• 10/8/2025 – Acuity had its “buy (b-)” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Weiss Ratings.
• 10/6/2025 – Acuity was upgraded by analysts at Zacks Research from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating.

Acuity Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, November 3rd. Investors of record on Friday, October 17th were paid a dividend of $0.17 per share. This represents a $0.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.2%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, October 17th. Acuity’s payout ratio is presently 5.43%.

Insider Transactions at Acuity

In related news, SVP Barry R. Goldman sold 4,489 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, October 28th. The stock was sold at an average price of $365.11, for a total transaction of $1,638,978.79. Following the sale, the senior vice president owned 6,056 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,211,106.16. This represents a 42.57% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Company insiders own 2.80% of the company’s stock.

Acuity Brands, Inc provides lighting, lighting controls, building management system, location-aware applications in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL); and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG). The ABL segment provides commercial, architectural, and specialty lighting solutions, as well as lighting controls and components for various indoor and outdoor applications under the A-Light, Aculux, American Electric Lighting, Cyclone, Dark to Light, eldoLED, Eureka, Gotham, Healthcare Lighting, Holophane, Hydrel, Indy, IOTA, Juno, Lithonia Lighting, Luminaire LED, Luminis, Mark Architectural Lighting, nLight, OPTOTRONIC, Peerless, RELOCWiring Solutions, and Sensor Switch.