Acuity Brands falls on sales miss
** Shares of industrial technology co Acuity Brands Inc
AYI.N down 5.2% at $173.30 premarket
** Posts Q2 net sales of $943.6 mln, missing Street
estimates of $958.47 mln - Refinitiv IBES
** Also, posts Q2 adj. profit of $3.06/shr and profit of
$2.57/shr
** 3 of 10 brokerages rate the stock "buy" or higher, 7
"hold"; their median PT is $193.0
** As of last close, stock rose 10.70% YTD
(Reporting By Akshita Toshniwal)
((Akshita.Toshniwal@thomsonreuters.com))