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GRIFFON CORP GFF
GRIFFON CORP (GFF) earns a Piotroski F-score of 7/9 (strong financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the safe zone. It pays a dividend yielding 0.90% (safety: stretched). FY2025 revenue was $2.5B at a 2.0% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-09 | Stephens & Co. | Overweight (main) |
| 2025-11-24 | Stephens & Co. | Overweight (main) |
| 2025-07-22 | Baird | Outperform (main) |
| 2025-05-09 | Raymond James | Strong Buy (reit) |
| 2025-04-01 | Deutsche Bank | Buy (init) |
| 2025-02-13 | Loop Capital | Buy (init) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Manufacturing · percentile among 1957 companies
Percentile vs other Manufacturing companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 7/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · safe zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.385 |
| Retained earnings / assets | 0.231 |
| EBIT / assets | 0.099 |
| Equity / liabilities | 0.037 |
Sector peers · similar-size Manufacturing companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GFF | GRIFFON CORP | 7/9 | 3.98 | 86.5 | -3.9% |
| JBI | Janus International Group, Inc. | 6/9 | 3.81 | 13.9 | -8.3% |
| MTEN | Mingteng International Corp Inc. | 2/9 | 2.65 | — | +15.3% |
| VFS | VinFast Auto Ltd. | 4/9 | -13.01 | — | +57.9% |
| TM | TOYOTA MOTOR CORP/ | 7/9 | 2.55 | — | -1% |
| HMC | HONDA MOTOR CO LTD | 6/9 | 2.79 | — | +19.9% |
| SONY | Sony Group Corp | 6/9 | 0.86 | — | +9% |
About GRIFFON CORP
Griffon Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides home and building, and consumer and professional products in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, and internationally. The Home and Building Products segment manufactures and markets residential and sectional commercial garage doors, rolling steel service doors, fire doors, shutters, steel security grilles, and room dividers. This segment also sells garage door openers. Its Consumer and Professional Products segment manufactures and markets long-handled engineered tools, including shovels, spades, scoops, rakes, hoes, cultivators, weeders, post hole diggers, scrapers, edgers, and forks; wheelbarrows and lawn carts; snow tools comprising pushers, roof rakes, sled sleigh shovels, and ice scrapers; and pruning products, such as pruners, loppers, shears, and other tools. This segment also offers striking tools, including axes, picks, mattocks, mauls, wood splitters, sledgehammers, pry bars, and repair handles; hand tools comprising hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, adjustable wrenches, handsaws, tape measures, levels, clamps, trowels, and other hand tools; indoor and outdoor planters and lawn accessories; and garden hoses and hose reels. In addition, this segment provides home organization products, including wire and wood shelving, containers, storage cabinets, and other closet and home organization accessories; residential, industrial, and commercial fans; and cleaning products, such as brooms, brushes, squeegees, and other cleaning products. It serves independent professional installing dealers and home center retail chains; and industrial distributors, homebuilders, and e-commerce platforms, as well as mass market, specialty, and hardware retailers. The company was formerly known as Instrument Systems Corporation and changed its name to Griffon Corporation in 1995. Griffon Corporation was incorporated in 1959 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
FAQ
Is GFF financially healthy?
GRIFFON CORP's Piotroski F-score is 7/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the safe zone.
Does GFF pay a dividend, and is it safe?
Yes. GRIFFON CORP pays a dividend yielding about 0.90% with a 77.7% payout ratio, rated “stretched” for safety.
How profitable is GFF?
In FY2025, GRIFFON CORP had a net margin of 2.0% and a return on equity of 69.1%.
Is GFF overvalued or undervalued?
GRIFFON CORP trades at about 96.2× trailing earnings — above its 10-year norm (10-year range 4.1×–67.9×, median 24.5×). Stocktoria reports the data, not buy/sell advice.
What is the analyst price target for GFF?
The average Wall-Street price target for GRIFFON CORP is $118.43, about 12.9% above the recent price, from 7 analysts.
Is GFF a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on GRIFFON CORP: a Piotroski F-score of 7/9, an Altman Z″ in the safe zone, a P/E of about 86.5×, a dividend yield of 0.90%. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-09-30. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.