GFFGriffon Corporation
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet, but heavy debt (CCC).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$19.2M, 90 days to Oct 9, 2026), selling is often routine.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -61% · now 15% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Sep 30, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can GFF take a bad year?
The deepest fall in GFF's price history on file is −61%; it is 15% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Altman Z-score
- 3.53
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 5.24×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 38%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $1.27B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $110M
- Net debt
- $1.16B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $459M
- Debt / equity
- 9.81×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 38%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- 15%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Building Products & Equipment
Ranks #9 of 19 by RyuScore