CRH Plc (CRH) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $77.68, with 4.09 million shares of worth about $317.89 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 38.22% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a gain of about 0.13%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 744.29M shares, out of which, 685.55M shares are available for trading.
According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 21 times over the past 12 months. They bought 347,624 shares in 15 of the transactions. In 6 selling transactions, insiders dumped 278,739 shares.
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However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 78.71, or with a gain of 0.13%. Stock saw a price change of 7.26% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 10.56%. Year-to-date (YTD), CRH shares are showing a performance of 12.32% which increased to 67.65% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $46.06 but also hit the highest price of $78.68 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for CRH Plc shares is 3.69 million. The stock is currently trading 6.28% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 11.14% for SMA50 and it goes to 31.65% higher than SMA200.
CRH Plc (NYSE: CRH) currently have 744.29M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 69.95% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $53.70B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.28. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.99, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.89 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.47 and has Quick Ratio of 0.96 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.54. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CRH, volatility over the week remained 2.02% while standing at 1.97% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that CRH Plc (CRH) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0 and it is $4.96 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0 which is $0 at the higher side of the target for the same. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 28.82% while it is estimated to increase by 10.30% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 13.63% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 14.71% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by DA Davidson on January 19, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $82 to it. Coverage by Truist stated CRH Plc (CRH) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on December 14, 2023, suggesting a price target of $81 for the stock. Stock get a Buy rating from Redburn on June 15, 2023.
