CRH Plc (CRH) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $89.03, with 9.79 million shares of worth about $871.9 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 0.34% during that period and on April 09, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 10.80%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 677.29M shares, out of which, 670.97M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -1.77% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -5.92%. Year-to-date (YTD), CRH shares are showing a performance of -3.77% which increased to 3.90% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $71.18 but also hit the highest price of $110.97 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for CRH Plc shares is 7.32 million. The stock is currently trading -2.86% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -8.58% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.23% lower than SMA200.
CRH Plc (NYSE: CRH) currently have 677.29M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 80.80% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $60.34B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.25. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 17.68, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.04 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.96 and has Quick Ratio of 0.91 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72. 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 8.73% while standing at 4.44% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that CRH Plc (CRH) stock would likely to be making an EPS of -0.09 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.07 and it is 6.47 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target -0.17 which is -0.01 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of -0.04 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.58% while it is estimated to increase by 10.47% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 9.02% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 18.51% 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.
