Griffon Corporation GFF

Competitive advantage analysis · industrials

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
66/100
Moderate

About Griffon Corporation

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 … Full GFF analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Revenue Growth Consistent Revenue growth volatility is low (stability score 0.76), suggesting sticky customer base.
  • Cash Generation Consistent Cash generation is consistent (score 0.88), indicating reliable business model.

Key risks

  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.32), raising refinancing risk.

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Pricing Power

Moderate
56

Where GFF ranks in Conglomerates

Griffon Corporation ranks #6 of 27 scored companies in Conglomerates by moat score — the top 22%. The widest moat in the group is Steel Partners Holdings LP LTD (SPLP) at 79/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near GFF in Conglomerates
# Company Moat score Rating
2 Honeywell International Inc. HON 78/100 Strong
3 Valmont Industries, Inc. VMI 71/100 Moderate
4 Deluxe Corporation DLX 69/100 Moderate
5 3M Company MMM 68/100 Moderate
6 Griffon Corporation GFF 66/100 Moderate
7 RCM Technologies, Inc. RCMT 66/100 Moderate
8 Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. Warrant CRESW 62/100 Moderate
9 Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. CRESY 62/100 Moderate
10 MDU Resources Group, Inc. MDU 61/100 Moderate

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How GFF scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 56 · 20% of the moat score

Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.

Cost Advantage

Score 59 · 15% of the moat score

A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.

Customer Stickiness

Score 83 · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 65 · 18% of the moat score

Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.

Resilience

Score 62 · 17% of the moat score

Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.

Scale & Market Position

Score 76 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding GFF's moat

What is Griffon Corporation's moat score?

Griffon Corporation (GFF) scores 66 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #6 of 27 scored companies in Conglomerates, the top 22%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 26 companies in Conglomerates. Its strongest defense is Customer Stickiness (83/100) and its weakest is Pricing Power (56/100).

How does Griffon Corporation compare with other Conglomerates companies?

Griffon Corporation ranks #6 of 27 scored companies in Conglomerates by moat score. The widest moat in Conglomerates is Steel Partners Holdings LP LTD (SPLP) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are 3M Company (MMM) at 68 just above it and RCM Technologies, Inc. (RCMT) at 66 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 26 companies in Conglomerates. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Griffon Corporation scored with the Corporate Default template?

Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Griffon Corporation?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GFF scores: Pricing Power (56), Cost Advantage (59), Customer Stickiness (83), Capital Efficiency (65), Resilience (62), Scale & Market Position (76). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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