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Acuity Brands Inc (AYI) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for AYI, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.89 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How AYI has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.89 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Acuity Brands Inc moved 0.89% on average · correlation 0.22 · higher than 82% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.21 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.18% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +1.11% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Electrical Equipment & Parts · United States · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Electrical Equipment & Parts · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against AYI on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Acuity Brands Inc

AYI in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Acuity designs and sells lighting fixtures, lighting controls and building-management systems, mainly through two units: Acuity Brands Lighting, which makes luminaires and electronic lighting components under a wide set of brand names for distributors, retailers and equipment makers, and Acuity Intelligent Spaces, which supplies building controls, audio-visual platforms and related software for venues such as airports, campuses and stadiums. It is based in Atlanta and trades on US markets after a 2001 listing.
Where it sits in the stack
Acuity has no seat in Rubin, our AI-infrastructure index; it sits in the Russell 1000 within the Industrials sector, under Electrical Equipment & Parts, alongside other diversified electrical-products makers rather than the AI build-out chain.
Who it is priced against
Our index carries no assigned peer group for Acuity; the comparison the market draws is with other lighting and building-systems suppliers such as Hubbell.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It is a Russell 1000 constituent but carries no Rubin or Halo seat and no Closelooknet score yet; the diary has not quoted it in the Morning 10 or other editions.
What the diary watches
Whether the recent slide off its 52-week high, now running through a third straight down session, steadies or extends further below its 50-day and 200-day averages.

Acuity Brands Inc (AYI) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.06%, annual · last 0.20 USD on 2026-04-17

Dividends and capital return

What AYI pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.20 USD per share · a 0.06% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +17.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.17 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.20 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-04-17
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.13 USD (partial) · 2025: 0.17 USD · 2026: 0.20 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-17

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Acuity Brands Inc (AYI)?

Acuity Brands Inc trades as AYI on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is AYI in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Acuity Brands Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does AYI trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -4% vs the 50-day and +1.2% vs the 200-day average, 15.9% below the 52-week high and +24.4% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 40 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Acuity Brands Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Acuity Brands Inc had a beta of 0.89 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 82% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.18% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Acuity Brands Inc do?

Acuity designs and sells lighting fixtures, lighting controls and building-management systems, mainly through two units: Acuity Brands Lighting, which makes luminaires and electronic lighting components under a wide set of brand names for distributors, retailers and equipment makers, and Acuity Intelligent Spaces, which supplies building controls, audio-visual platforms and related software for venues such as airports, campuses and stadiums. It is based in Atlanta and trades on US markets after a 2001 listing. Our index carries no assigned peer group for Acuity; the comparison the market draws is with other lighting and building-systems suppliers such as Hubbell.

Where does Acuity Brands Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Acuity has no seat in Rubin, our AI-infrastructure index; it sits in the Russell 1000 within the Industrials sector, under Electrical Equipment & Parts, alongside other diversified electrical-products makers rather than the AI build-out chain. It is a Russell 1000 constituent but carries no Rubin or Halo seat and no Closelooknet score yet; the diary has not quoted it in the Morning 10 or other editions.

Does Acuity Brands Inc pay a dividend?

Acuity Brands Inc has paid 0.20 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.06% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.20 USD on 2026-04-17. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AYI, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Electrical Equipment & Parts. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.