Acuity Brands Ownership | Who Owns Acuity Brands?

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Acuity Brands Ownership Summary

Acuity Brands is owned by 5.06% institutional investors, 0.32% insiders, and 94.62% retail investors. Blackrock is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 11.20% of AYI shares. FullerThaler Behavioral Small-Cap Equity is the top mutual fund, with 3.51% of its assets in Acuity Brands shares.

AYI Ownership Benchmark

Type	Name	% Inst	% Insiders	% Retail
Stock	Acuity Brands	5.06%	0.32%	94.62%
Sector	Industrials Stocks	39.05%	12.85%	48.10%
Industry	Electrical Equipment Stocks	24.63%	20.04%	55.33%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Blackrock	3.45M	11.20%	$833.95M
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	3.24M	10.46%	$945.55M
Vanguard group	3.10M	10.04%	$906.93M
Fmr	2.00M	6.46%	$583.41M
Fuller & thaler asset management	1.12M	3.62%	$327.47M
Wellington management group llp	1.12M	3.61%	$326.45M
Durable capital partners lp	1.10M	3.54%	$289.29M
State street	988.76K	3.20%	$288.85M
Jpmorgan chase	921.48K	2.98%	$269.19M
American century companies	808.27K	2.61%	$236.12M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
Allen operations	344.10K	15.94%	$100.52M
Greenstone partners	161.54K	11.29%	$42.54M
Cairn investment group	23.58K	4.05%	$6.89M
Seizert capital partners	280.37K	3.70%	$81.90M
Lathrop investment management	56.79K	3.16%	$16.59M
Schwerin boyle capital management	94.56K	2.83%	$27.62M
Durable capital partners lp	1.10M	2.59%	$289.29M
Lummis asset management, lp	6.67K	2.47%	$1.95M
Triodos investment management bv	84.80K	2.00%	$24.77M
Guardian wealth management	8.78K	1.75%	$2.57M

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Blackrock	3.45M	0.02%	546.55K
Ubs group	412.89K	0.02%	398.88K
Norges bank	377.35K	0.01%	377.35K
Arrowstreet capital, limited partnership	216.01K	0.05%	152.81K
Caisse de depot et placement du quebec	161.18K	0.10%	149.30K

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Fmr	2.00M	0.03%	-706.03K
Pacer advisors	8.48K	0.01%	-429.26K
Sound shore management inc /ct/	-	-	-186.13K
Interval partners, lp	-	-	-175.79K
Boston partners	357.10K	0.13%	-98.65K

New Positions

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change	Value
Norges bank	377.35K	0.01%	377.35K	$110.24M
Raymond james financial	45.85K	0.01%	45.85K	$13.39M
De lisle partners llp	23.21K	0.99%	23.21K	$6.78M
Capital fund management	20.86K	0.02%	20.86K	$6.10M
Ieq capital	13.69K	0.04%	13.69K	$4.00M

Sold Out

Holder	Change
Tfc financial management	-1.00
Sachetta	-1.00
Tfo-tdc	-1.00
American capital advisory	-1.00
New millennium group	-2.00

Institutional Ownership Trends

Date	Holdings	Change %	Shares	Change %	Ownership	Change %	Increased Position	Change %	Decreased Position	Change %
Mar 31, 2025	18	-96.73%	1,567,941	-94.81%	5	0.05%	9	-96.83%	5	-97.13%
Dec 31, 2024	537	10.49%	30,121,675	2.48%	97	1.07%	272	25.93%	172	1.78%
Sep 30, 2024	481	-2.43%	29,326,562	-2.10%	94	1.01%	213	-10.13%	167	5.70%
Jun 30, 2024	490	0.41%	29,950,349	4.58%	97	1.13%	235	9.81%	157	-11.80%
Mar 31, 2024	488	11.16%	28,637,581	-5.19%	92	0.98%	214	5.42%	178	14.84%

Top Mutual Funds Shareholders

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Change
FullerThaler Behavioral Small-Cap Equity	1.07M	3.51%	16.90K
FullerThaler Behavioral Sm-Cp Eq R6	1.07M	3.47%	16.90K
iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF	999.12K	3.26%	66.00
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv	994.16K	3.24%	-1.34K
Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF	979.52K	3.16%	704.00
Vanguard Small Cap Index	755.11K	2.46%	-25.68K
American Century US Premier Lg Cp Gr	530.00K	1.73%	-
American Century Ultra® Inv	530.00K	1.73%	-
Vanguard Small Cap Value Index Inv	481.84K	1.57%	-20.18K
Vanguard Institutional Extnd Mkt Idx Tr	472.04K	1.54%	-6.47K

Recent Insider Transactions

Date	Name	Role	Activity	Value
Jul 01, 2025	GOLDMAN BARRY R	SVP & General Counsel	Sell	$694.34K
Jul 01, 2025	GOLDMAN BARRY R	SVP & General Counsel	Sell	$536.17K
Jun 27, 2025	HOLCOM KAREN J	SVP & Chief Financial Officer	Sell	$1.81M
Oct 28, 2024	GOLDMAN BARRY R	SVP & General Counsel	Sell	$1.56M
Apr 25, 2024	Leibman Maya	-	Buy	$49.78K

Insider Transactions Trends

Date	Buy	Sell
2025 Q3	-	2
2025 Q2	-	1
2025 Q1	-	-
2024 Q4	-	1
2024 Q2	1	1

AYI Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Acuity Brands?

Acuity Brands shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 5.06%, followed by 0.32% insiders and 94.62% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Acuity Brands's industry, Electrical Equipment Stocks, is 24.63%, which Acuity Brands falls below.

Who owns the most shares of Acuity Brands?

Acuity Brands’s largest shareholders are Blackrock (3.45M shares, 11.20%), Blackrock funding, inc. /de (3.24M shares, 10.46%), and Vanguard group (3.1M shares, 10.04%). Together, they hold 31.71% of Acuity Brands’s total shares outstanding.

Does Blackrock own Acuity Brands?

Yes, BlackRock owns 11.20% of Acuity Brands, totaling 3.45M shares as of Jun 2024. This represents 0.02% of BlackRock's total assets, with a market value of 833.95M$. In the last quarter, BlackRock increased its holdings by 546.55K shares, a 18.80% change.

Who is Acuity Brands’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested?

Allen operations is Acuity Brands’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested, with 15.94% of its assets in 344.1K Acuity Brands shares, valued at 100.52M$.

Who is the top mutual fund holder of Acuity Brands shares?

FullerThaler Behavioral Small-Cap Equity is the top mutual fund holder of Acuity Brands shares, with 3.51% of its total shares outstanding invested in 1.07M Acuity Brands shares.

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