Company Analysis

Griffon Corp (GFF)

NYSE: GFF · Metal Doors, Sash, Frames, Moldings & Trim · New York, NY · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade6.3
◀ Past 7.2● Present 6.9▶ Future 4.6

The grade of Griffon Corp

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.3/10
◀ Past7.230% of the headline
● Present6.940% of the headline
▶ Future4.630% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

7.2/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.4/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 84th percentile among 37 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Griffon Corp's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
5.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+6.1% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 55th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Griffon Corp's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.5 billion in fiscal 2016 to $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 12% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span6.1%top 41% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 35% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 44% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak11.5%top 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
9.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 3.3% a year. 74% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 57 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 92nd percentile among 26 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Griffon Corp's diluted share count shrank about 3.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 74% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 57 sales (45 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06, buying about $80 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 8% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.9/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 69%: 69¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 96%: owes 96¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 73rd percentile among 34 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Griffon Corp earned about 69 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 51 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 96 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 6.0% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 15% of its family
  • return on equitytop 5% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 15% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.8/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 48% of 35 in its family; net margin 2%.

weight 33% of this tense · 48th percentile among 35 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Griffon Corp's standing among 35 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 30% by size; a net margin of 2% ranks in the bottom 44%; revenue growth of -4% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 31% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$2.52Btop 30% of its family
  • net margin2.0%bottom 44% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-4.0%bottom 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
9.2/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 8% of 28 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2008.

weight 22% of this tense · 92nd percentile among 28 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Griffon Corp's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kramer, Ronald J (Chairman of the Board and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2008-04-01, 18.6 years (top 6% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 10 years (top 13%); 2 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (top 5%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge2 in three years among 15 peopletop 5% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed10.0 yearstop 13% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record18.6 yearstop 6% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.6/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
5.3/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 47% of 32 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 32 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Griffon Corp's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $99 million against debt of $1.4 billion leaves -63.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 1% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 12.1% of revenue (top 17%); a gross margin of 42% (top 25%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-63.3%bottom 1% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue12.1%top 17% of its family
  • gross margin42.0%top 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
3.0/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 30% of 34 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 30th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Griffon Corp's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -4% a year over the last three filed years against 6.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 14% of its family); the newest year grew -4% (bottom 16%); capital spending grew 7.3% a year (top 41%) (its annual reports). Griffon Corp reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Home and Building Products HBP at $1.6 billion (63%), Consumer and Professional Products at $936 million (37%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-10.1 points a yearbottom 14% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-4.0%bottom 16% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending7.3%top 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
5.8/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 42% of 34 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 58th percentile among 34 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Griffon Corp's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.1% above the $2.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 28% of its family); net income of $51 million against a prior three-year average of $32 million (top 22%); a net margin of 2% against 1.4% before (top 31%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace0.1%bottom 28% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+60%top 22% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+0.6 pointstop 31% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton GFF · research, not advice