CRH Plc (CRH) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $103.37, with 3.46 million shares of worth about $357.85 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 31.85% during that period and on December 04, 2024 the price saw a gain of about 0.86%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 679.83M shares, out of which, 673.37M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.49% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 9.44%. Year-to-date (YTD), CRH shares are showing a performance of 49.47% which increased to 64.18% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $62.80 but also hit the highest price of $104.19 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for CRH Plc shares is 3.81 million. The stock is currently trading 2.31% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 7.87% for SMA50 and it goes to 21.14% higher than SMA200.
CRH Plc (NYSE: CRH) currently have 679.83M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 80.60% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $70.22B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.37. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.67, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.00 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.42 and has Quick Ratio of 0.96 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.71. 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 1.45% while standing at 1.62% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 17.28% while it is estimated to increase by 10.48% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 14.56% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 26.26% 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 HSBC Securities on November 11, 2024 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $116 to it. Coverage by Barclays stated CRH Plc (CRH) stock as an Overweight in their note to investors on October 29, 2024, suggesting a price target of $110 for the stock. On July 09, 2024, Morgan Stanley Upgrade their recommendations, while on June 18, 2024, Stephens Initiated their ratings for the stock with a price target of $95. Stock get an Outperform rating from RBC Capital Mkts on May 14, 2024.
