CRH Plc (NYSE: CRH) Not A Good Play Anymore?

CRH Plc (CRH) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $95.08, with 4.77 million shares of worth about $453.9 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -3.27% during that period and on May 21, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.70%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 676.64M shares, out of which, 676.39M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of -2.45% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 10.92%. Year-to-date (YTD), CRH shares are showing a performance of 2.77% which increased to 16.06% 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 7.71 million. The stock is currently trading -0.68% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.09% for SMA50 and it goes to 1.08% higher than SMA200.

CRH Plc (NYSE: CRH) currently have 676.64M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 85.21% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $64.27B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.25. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 20.12, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.73 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.29 and has Quick Ratio of 1.07 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80. 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 1.90% while standing at 2.33% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 4.79% while it is estimated to increase by 11.40% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.77% 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 Bernstein on May 13, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $115 to it. Coverage by HSBC Securities stated CRH Plc (CRH) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on November 11, 2024, suggesting a price target of $116 for the stock. On October 29, 2024, Barclays Initiated their recommendations, while on July 09, 2024, Morgan Stanley Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $88. Stock get an Overweight rating from Stephens on June 18, 2024.

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