Is the business good?
How good a business is GFF?
Griffon Corporation earns 28% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
28%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 19 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 17%
Operating margin · Building Products & Equipment median 16% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.66×
Cash conversion · 3.62× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −0.38%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 6.8% |
| FY2021 | 7.5% |
| FY2022 | −6.6% |
| FY2023 | 7.3% |
| FY2024 | 15% |
| FY2025 | 8.2% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 40%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 17%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 6.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- 11%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.75B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $297M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $179M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 28%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Building Products & Equipment
Ranks #14 of 18 by Smart Score