Verdict: Side-by-side breakdown using the Bull Rankings model. GFF scored 73.6, EME scored 72.7 — GFF leads.
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GFF
Griffon Corporation
Building Products & Equipment · Quality-Growth
73.6
$89.74 · $4.1B
fundamentals as of
Score gap
0.9
GFF leads
EME
EMCOR Group, Inc.
Engineering & Construction · Quality-Growth
72.7
$779.16 · $34.4B
fundamentals as of
At a glance · who leads each dimension, on the model's own rules
CheapestGFF19.3x
Fastest growthGFF+26.9%
Highest qualityEME84 / 100
Side by side · every name on one set of axes
Growth against the P/E multiple. Up and to the right is cheaper and faster — the quality-growth idea in one picture. Points beyond the axis are pinned to the edge and marked off-scale rather than allowed to compress everything else.
The model, pillar by pillar (0–100 each)
GFF
stronger →← stronger
EME
79
Qualityreturns · margins · balance sheet
84
66
Growthrevenue & earnings expansion
89
77
Valuevaluation vs sector peers
51
EME is stronger on 2 of 3 pillars.
Fundamentals, head-to-head
GFF
EME
$297mC
FCF
$1.2bC+
+26.9%A-
Rev
+18.9%B+
—
D/E
0.13A-
19.3xB+
P/E
24.3xB
0.54A-
PEG
0.32A
Winner per row is the stronger grade; where grades tie, the better figure breaks it. A true tie or a missing value shows no highlight.
Valuation · DCF cross-check
GFF
EME
25% above
Price vs fair valuelower is cheaper
73% above
~10%/yr
Growth the price impliesyr-1 FCF growth, fading to 4% · lower = less priced in
~24%/yr
-20%
1-yr DCF upside
-49%
-20%
5-yr DCF upside
-42%
-19%
10-yr DCF upside
-30%
The DCF is a cross-check on intrinsic value, separate from the quality-growth score above.
Model signals
GFF
Why this score
Buying back stock
Raising its dividend
EME
Why this score
Durable high returns
The companies
GFFGriffon Corporation
Building Products & Equipment · $89.74 · beta 1.44
Why now
Building Products & Equipment · market cap $4.1b. 17% off the 52-week high of $108.57. Revenue growing +27% — in hypergrowth territory. PEG 0.54 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 7 sell-side analysts rate this a Strong Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $126.86 (implying +41% upside).
Moat
FCF converts 166% of net income — earnings translate cleanly into cash.
Risk
Beta 1.44 implies above-market volatility — position-size to the drawdowns this name will produce in a market correction, not to its bull-case return.
EMEEMCOR Group, Inc.
Engineering & Construction · $779.16 · beta 1.12
Why now
Engineering & Construction · market cap $34.4b. 18% off the 52-week high of $951.96. Revenue growing +19%, comfortably above the S&P median. PEG 0.32 — paying under fair value for the growth rate. 7 sell-side analysts rate this a Buy with a mean 1-yr target of $1,033 (implying +33% upside).
Moat
ROE 35% — top-decile capital efficiency. Either pricing leverage, low capital intensity, or aggressive buybacks; the durability story depends on which.
Risk
Value re-rating depends on a catalyst. Without one — analyst day, divestiture, margin recovery, capital return — the stock can stay cheap on these multiples for years.
Verdict — model-derived comparison
The model slightly favors EME (76.5) over GFF (75.9), primarily driven by EME's superior Growth pillar score of 91 compared to GFF's 83. However, a contrarian might prefer GFF, which trades 5% below its DCF fair value and has a much lower implied growth of 6% per year, suggesting less optimism is priced in.
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Where GFF and EME diverge
On the headline score the gap is 0.9 points in favor of GFF. They get there differently, though — each leads on a different pillar, so the better pick depends on which you weight.
ValueGFF 76.9 · EME 51.4GFF +25.5
GrowthGFF 65.5 · EME 89.3EME +23.8
QualityGFF 78.9 · EME 83.8EME +4.9
Pillars run 0–100. Value is judged against each company's own sector, so a Value score is a statement about a company relative to its own industry rather than to the other name here. A wide Value gap usually means the market already prices the difference in quality or growth — which is the trade-off this comparison comes down to.
Common questions
Is GFF or EME the better stock?
GFF scores higher: GFF 73.6, EME 72.7 out of 100 on the Bull Rankings quality-growth score, which blends business quality, growth and valuation into one number. A higher score means a stronger business at a more reasonable price — it is not a price target or a recommendation.
Where do GFF and EME differ most?
The widest gap is value, where GFF leads by 26 points on the 0–100 pillar scale. Neither name sweeps: they trade the lead across the three pillars, so the comparison is a trade-off rather than one being better on every measure.
How are GFF and EME scored?
Each carries the same 0–100 quality-growth score used everywhere on the site, built from three pillars — quality (profitability and returns on capital), growth (revenue and earnings), and value (what you pay for them) — combined as a geometric mean, so a weak pillar cannot be papered over by a strong one.
How current is this comparison?
The whole universe is re-scored every trading day after the US market close, so the scores and fundamentals here reflect the latest published edition.