Griffon Corporation (GFF) Stock Price & How to Invest

Griffon Corporation is a diversified management and holding company that, after a multi-year portfolio overhaul, operates primarily as a North American building products manufacturer. Its Home and Building Products segment makes residential garage doors under the Clopay brand, commercial sectional doors, rolling steel doors and grilles, and residential and commercial ceiling fans through Hunter Fan, which Griffon acquired in 2022. Products reach the market through professional dealers and installers as well as big-box home centers, so demand tracks a mix of new residential construction, repair and remodel activity, and non-residential building.

The investment picture changed materially in 2026. Griffon agreed in February to fold AMES North America into a joint venture with ONCAP and the Venanpri Group, taking a 43% equity stake, and in June agreed to sell AMES Australasia into a locally backed joint venture for roughly $185 million in cash plus a $50 million note and a retained 49% interest. Those closings, completed around the fiscal third quarter, brought in about $281 million of cash proceeds and left continuing operations guided to roughly $1.8 billion of revenue and about $458 million of adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2026. What remains is a smaller but structurally more profitable business, running EBITDA margins in the low-to-mid twenties, generating free cash flow ahead of net income, and returning capital through steady buybacks and a modest dividend.

Griffon's earnings are now concentrated in a single end market, so a prolonged downturn in U.S. housing turnover, new construction or repair and remodel spending would hit results with fewer offsets than before. Residential door volume has already been declining, which means growth depends heavily on continued price and mix gains that competitors could eventually compete away. Steel and aluminum costs, tariffs and freight are direct input risks for a metal-intensive product line, and pricing actions can lag cost spikes. The retained 43% and 49% AMES stakes are illiquid, hard for outside investors to value, and expose Griffon to results it no longer controls. Leverage near 2.2 times is manageable but leaves less cushion than an unlevered peer if EBITDA contracts, and the company's history of portfolio restructuring, activist involvement and large prior-year impairment charges means reported results can look noisy from period to period.

7 analysts publish price targets on GFF, averaging $118.43 against a $102.81 price as of August 2026, or +15.2%. The published targets run from $115.00 to $135.00, a narrow spread, and the ratings split 7 buy, 0 hold, 0 sell. Over the last six months there has been 1 raise and 0 cuts among the published actions. A price target is what an analyst published on a date, not a prediction, and sell-side ratings skew positive across the whole market.

Read the full GFF forecast and price target for the target table, the recent rating actions by firm, and how the consensus has shifted.

We give no verdict on Griffon Corporation. Both cases are real, which is why the question is contested at all, so here is the strongest version of each.

The case for buying. Pure-play building products focus. The AMES joint ventures remove a lower-margin, working-capital-heavy tools and lawn-and-garden business from the operating results. The most optimistic published target, $135.00, assumes this works close to its best case.

The case against. Griffon's earnings are now concentrated in a single end market, so a prolonged downturn in U.S. The most pessimistic target, $115.00, is roughly what GFF is worth if this bites instead.

Read the full bull and bear case on GFF, including what would have to change to break either one. Walnut is not an investment adviser.

A simple financial snapshot. These are approximations and refresh quarterly; for current figures see Griffon Corporation's investor relations page or your broker.

• Q3 FY2026 revenue: ~$481M (+7% YoY)
• Q3 FY2026 adjusted EPS: ~$1.51 (vs ~$1.39)
• FY2026 revenue guidance (continuing ops): ~$1.8B
• FY2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance: ~$458M
• Market cap: ~$4.7B
• Net debt / adjusted EBITDA: ~2.2x

GFF traded near $103 in early August 2026 after a sharp post-earnings move, putting it around 26 times trailing and roughly 18 times forward earnings, with a dividend yield near 0.9%. Trailing revenue of about $2.56 billion still reflects the AMES businesses now moving to joint ventures, so the roughly $1.8 billion continuing-operations guide is the cleaner run-rate. The gap between those two figures is the main reason headline valuation screens can be misleading for this name right now.

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There are three common ways to get GFF exposure. Buy shares (or fractional shares) directly at any major broker. Hold an ETF that includes it, which spreads the position across many companies. Or build it into a focused thematic portfolio, so GFF sits alongside other stocks that express the same thesis.

Walnut takes the portfolio route. Describe a thesis where GFF fits (for example “AI infrastructure” or “dividend-growth large-caps”) and the AI proposes 5 to 6 constituents with target weights. You review the plan and fund it through your own broker when you're ready.

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GFF is now a focused, high-margin door and fan manufacturer with strong free cash flow and a shrinking share count, and the debate is whether residential repair-and-remodel demand holds up long enough for that model to keep compounding.

Whether GFF is worth buying today depends more on your time horizon and what you already hold than on any single call. We walk through valuation, what would have to go right, and the risks in is GFF a buy or a sell?, and where the stock could go from here in the GFF stock forecast.

For income investors, whether GFF pays a dividend and how the payout looks is covered in does GFF pay a dividend? And to weigh GFF against a peer, read the full side-by-side comparisons: GFF vs LOW and GFF vs VRT.