profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Grafton Group
£10.32-0.23% today
+8.4% in 1 year
1-year low £8.081-year high £10.50
Trading close to its highest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay £14.07 for every £1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Grafton Group sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from £2.30 billion in 2022 to £2.52 billion in 2025, with £137 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Grafton Group handed back 63% of the cash it generated last year.
Buybacks £57M£73M
Free cash flow 2025£206M
Bought back its own shares£57M
Paid as dividends£73M
Cash vs. debt£396M vs. £619M
Grafton Group vs. similar companies
Grafton Group grows in the middle of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grafton Group | 14.1× · Cheap | ||
 W.W. Grainger | 40.9× · Expensive | ||
 Ferguson Enterprises | 26.8× · Fair price | ||
 Diploma | 52.5× · Expensive | ||
 Indutrade | 38.1× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Grafton Group's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,301 | 2,319 | 2,282 | 2,520 | |
| 869 | 851 | 846 | 955 | |
| 241 | 184 | 154 | 162 | |
| 387 | 333 | 312 | 340 | |
| 209 | 149 | 122 | 137 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 37.7% | 36.7% | 37.1% | 37.9% | |
| 10.5% | 7.9% | 6.7% | 6.4% | |
| 9.1% | 6.4% | 5.3% | 5.4% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 2,987 | 2,807 | 2,752 | 2,820 |
| Cash | 712 | 384 | 359 | 396 |
| Total debt | 703 | 633 | 641 | 619 |
| Total liabilities | 1,241 | 1,151 | 1,156 | 1,172 |
| 1,746 | 1,656 | 1,596 | 1,649 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 8.3% | 6.8% | 5.9% | 6.3% | |
| 12.0% | 9.0% | 7.6% | 8.3% |
Cash flow
| In millions of GBP | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 217 | 273 | 247 | 252 | |
| 58 | 53 | 47 | 46 | |
| 160 | 220 | 200 | 206 | |
| Dividends paid | 74 | 73 | 73 | 73 |
| 143 | 159 | 81 | 57 | |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Valuation
- 14.1×
- –
- –
- 1.2×
- 0.8×
- 9.3×
- 6.3×
- 10.7%
- 7.1%
- 3.8%
Profitability
- 37.9%
- 6.4%
- 5.4%
- –
- 6.3%
- 6.8%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +3.1%
- –
- –
- –
- −6.0%
Financial health
- 0.7×
- 0.38
- –
- 7.9×
- 2.11
- –
- –
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 34%of 983
Bottom 35%of 991
Top 23%of 880
Bottom 30%of 990
Top 13%of 988
3.8%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$38a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
53.2% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 35.3%
News
No recent news on file.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
65Pass
Benjamin Graham
79Pass
Philip Fisher
46No pass
Peter Lynch
42No pass
Joel Greenblatt
40No pass
Charlie Munger
48No pass
Terry Smith
45No pass
Questions about Grafton Group
Is Grafton Group a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 2 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Grafton Group AI analysis
What does Grafton Group do?
Grafton Group plc distributes and sells building materials and construction related products in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, and Spain. It is in Industrial Distribution, based in Dublin, Ireland, with 7,701 employees.
Does Grafton Group pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 3.8% a year, about 53% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £72.6 million in dividends.
Is Grafton Group stock halal?
Questionable. Grafton Group sits in a grey zone: its debt is 32% of its market value, between 30% and 33%. How we check
How has Grafton Group stock done over the past year?
Up 8.4% over the past twelve months, to £10.32. It traded between £8.08 and £10.50, close to its high.
Who are Grafton Group's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are W.W. Grainger, Ferguson Enterprises, Diploma and Indutrade. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Grafton Group's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.