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AYI Dividend History, Yield & Dates
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AYIAcuity Brands, Inc.
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AYI Dividend answer
Acuity Brands, Inc. (AYI) pays a quarterly dividend. Forward dividend yield: 0.25%, or $0.80 a year at the latest dividend. Trailing 12-month yield: 0.25%, from $0.80 per share paid over the past year. Its latest dividend was $0.20 per share. Latest ex-dividend date: Oct 16, 2026. Payment date: Nov 2, 2026. Next dividend status: announced at $0.20 per share.
AYI Dividend Snapshot
Yield, annual dividend, latest payment, payout coverage, growth, and dividend history are emphasized for this stock. Yield methodology is labeled separately from payout coverage.
Next AYI Dividend Date
When AYI next goes ex-dividend, the amount where it has been declared, and whether that state is announced, projected or not yet known.
Next AYI dividend
AYI's announced dividend calendar data is shown separately from historical payments so future dates do not get blended into completed dividend history.
Latest AYI Dividend Dates
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AYI Dividend History
Recent per-share dividends show payment cadence. Trailing-year and growth reads are shown only when the available rows cover a complete comparable window.
Dividend reliability
Recent dividend payments are summarized as cadence and coverage signals. Exact rows remain below for auditability.
AYI Annual Dividend History
AYI Dividend Growth
Latest row amount $0.20, event yield 26.50%.
This page labels the feed as recent history when multi-year rows, payment dates, or record dates are incomplete. Announced calendar dates are separated from completed dividend history.
Dividend growth
- 5-year regular dividend CAGR
- 5.51%
- Cohort rank
- #228
- Cohort standing
- Bottom half
- Industrials rank
- #47
- 2020 regular DPS
- $0.520
- 2025 regular DPS
- $0.680
- Absolute change
- $0.160
- Years increased
- 2
- Years reduced
- 0
AYI's split-adjusted regular dividend per share grew at 5.51% a year from 2020 through 2025, ranking #228 among US dividend-paying corporations that never cut the payout in AlgovestIQ's study.
Included in the research cohort, but below the yield threshold used for the study's headline table.
Split-adjusted regular dividends per share, 2020–2025, excluding special dividends. Research as of Sep 19, 2026.
AYI Dividend Yield
How AYI's trailing 12-month dividend yield is calculated, and what it does and does not account for.
Yield methodology
AYI's trailing dividend yield is the regular dividends paid over the last twelve months divided by the latest available share price. Payouts classified as special or supplemental are excluded, because a one-off payment is not recurring income. It is a backward-looking measure and is not the same as a forward yield, which annualises the most recent declared payment instead.
Dividend coverage
Coverage is read from earnings and cash flow rather than from the yield. A payout ratio leaves room, or does not; free cash flow either covers the payment, or the company is funding it another way. These are inputs to a judgement, not a guarantee of future payments.
Recent AYI dividend payments
| Ex-date | Dividend | Adjusted | Yield at ex-date | Frequency | TTM adjusted | Declared | Record date | Payment date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.20 | 26.50% | Quarterly | $0.80 | Sep 24, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 | Nov 2, 2026 |
| Jul 17, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.20 | 23.07% | Quarterly | $0.77 | Jun 24, 2026 | Jul 17, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 |
| Apr 17, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.20 | 25.29% | Quarterly | $0.74 | Mar 26, 2026 | Apr 17, 2026 | May 1, 2026 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | $0.20 | $0.20 | 22.42% | Quarterly | $0.71 | Jan 22, 2026 | Feb 2, 2026 | Feb 13, 2026 |
| Oct 17, 2025 | $0.17 | $0.17 | 19.07% | Quarterly | $0.68 | Sep 30, 2025 | Oct 17, 2025 | Nov 3, 2025 |
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| Jul 18, 2025 | $0.17 | $0.17 | 22.55% | Quarterly | $0.66 | Jun 25, 2025 | Jul 18, 2025 | Aug 1, 2025 |
| Apr 17, 2025 | $0.17 | $0.17 | 27.95% | Quarterly | $0.64 | Mar 27, 2025 | Apr 18, 2025 | May 1, 2025 |
| Feb 3, 2025 | $0.17 | $0.17 | 19.60% | Quarterly | $0.62 | Jan 23, 2025 | Feb 3, 2025 | Feb 14, 2025 |
| Oct 18, 2024 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 19.51% | Quarterly | $0.60 | Sep 26, 2024 | Oct 18, 2024 | Nov 1, 2024 |
| Jul 18, 2024 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 22.54% | Quarterly | $0.58 | Jun 26, 2024 | Jul 18, 2024 | Aug 1, 2024 |
| Apr 16, 2024 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 22.22% | Quarterly | $0.56 | Mar 28, 2024 | Apr 17, 2024 | May 1, 2024 |
| Feb 2, 2024 | $0.15 | $0.15 | 22.57% | Quarterly | $0.54 | Jan 25, 2024 | Feb 5, 2024 | Feb 14, 2024 |
| Oct 17, 2023 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 28.85% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Sep 28, 2023 | Oct 18, 2023 | Nov 1, 2023 |
| Jul 17, 2023 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 31.34% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jun 28, 2023 | Jul 18, 2023 | Aug 1, 2023 |
| Apr 14, 2023 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 32.96% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Mar 30, 2023 | Apr 17, 2023 | May 1, 2023 |
| Feb 3, 2023 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 27.14% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jan 26, 2023 | Feb 6, 2023 | Feb 14, 2023 |
| Oct 14, 2022 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 31.53% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Sep 29, 2022 | Oct 17, 2022 | Nov 1, 2022 |
| Jul 14, 2022 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 32.14% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jun 29, 2022 | Jul 15, 2022 | Aug 1, 2022 |
| Apr 14, 2022 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 30.45% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Mar 31, 2022 | Apr 18, 2022 | May 2, 2022 |
| Jan 19, 2022 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 25.45% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jan 6, 2022 | Jan 20, 2022 | Feb 1, 2022 |
| Oct 14, 2021 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 24.91% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Sep 28, 2021 | Oct 15, 2021 | Nov 1, 2021 |
| Jul 15, 2021 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 31.00% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jun 25, 2021 | Jul 16, 2021 | Aug 2, 2021 |
| Apr 15, 2021 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 30.53% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Mar 25, 2021 | Apr 16, 2021 | May 3, 2021 |
| Jan 19, 2021 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 44.30% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jan 6, 2021 | Jan 20, 2021 | Feb 1, 2021 |
| Oct 16, 2020 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 55.17% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Oct 6, 2020 | Oct 19, 2020 | Nov 2, 2020 |
| Jul 16, 2020 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 52.48% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jun 25, 2020 | Jul 17, 2020 | Aug 3, 2020 |
| Apr 16, 2020 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 64.11% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Mar 27, 2020 | Apr 17, 2020 | May 1, 2020 |
| Jan 16, 2020 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 42.48% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jan 8, 2020 | Jan 20, 2020 | Feb 3, 2020 |
| Oct 17, 2019 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 42.21% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Sep 27, 2019 | Oct 18, 2019 | Nov 1, 2019 |
| Jul 16, 2019 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 39.12% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jun 28, 2019 | Jul 17, 2019 | Aug 1, 2019 |
| Apr 16, 2019 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 36.68% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Mar 29, 2019 | Apr 17, 2019 | May 1, 2019 |
| Jan 17, 2019 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 43.94% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jan 4, 2019 | Jan 18, 2019 | Feb 1, 2019 |
| Oct 17, 2018 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 41.05% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Sep 28, 2018 | Oct 18, 2018 | Nov 1, 2018 |
| Jul 17, 2018 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 39.72% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jun 29, 2018 | Jul 18, 2018 | Aug 1, 2018 |
| Apr 16, 2018 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 39.84% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Mar 29, 2018 | Apr 17, 2018 | May 1, 2018 |
| Jan 19, 2018 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 31.87% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Jan 5, 2018 | Jan 22, 2018 | Feb 1, 2018 |
| Oct 17, 2017 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 31.78% | Quarterly | $0.52 | Sep 29, 2017 | Oct 18, 2017 | Nov 1, 2017 |
| Jul 14, 2017 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 25.40% | Quarterly | — | Jun 27, 2017 | Jul 18, 2017 | Aug 1, 2017 |
| Apr 12, 2017 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 29.75% | Quarterly | — | Mar 30, 2017 | Apr 17, 2017 | May 1, 2017 |
| Jan 19, 2017 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 25.19% | Quarterly | — | Jan 6, 2017 | Jan 23, 2017 | Feb 1, 2017 |
| Oct 14, 2016 | $0.13 | $0.13 | 20.97% | Quarterly | — | Sep 30, 2016 | Oct 18, 2016 | Nov 1, 2016 |
Dividend yield is only the starting point. Pair the current distribution with payout ratio, free cash flow coverage, balance-sheet risk, and the history of actual payments before treating income as durable.
A higher yield is more useful when earnings and free cash flow cover the distribution. A yield caused by a falling stock price can be a warning, not a bargain.
Stable or rising payments can indicate capital return discipline. Flat, skipped, or missing payments should be read with earnings and cash flow before drawing conclusions.
A low payout ratio can leave room for growth; a high payout ratio can indicate limited cushion. Cyclical companies need more room than stable defensive businesses.
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AYI Dividends FAQ
Does AYI pay a dividend?
Acuity Brands, Inc. (AYI) has covered dividend payment history on this page, including a latest dividend of $0.20 per share and a quarterly cadence based on available events.
What is AYI's dividend yield?
AYI's trailing dividend yield is 0.25%. Trailing dividend yield equals dividends paid over the trailing 12 months divided by the latest available share price.
When is AYI's next dividend?
AYI's next announced dividend is $0.20 per share with an ex-dividend date of Oct 16, 2026 and payment date of Nov 2, 2026.
When is AYI's ex-dividend date?
AYI's next announced ex-dividend date is Oct 16, 2026.
How has AYI's dividend changed?
AYI's one-year dividend growth is 17.65% based on comparable covered dividend history.