CRH Plc (CRH) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $91.96, with 5.64 million shares of worth about $518.68 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -9.31% during that period and on May 29, 2025 the price remained unchanged. 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 -3.28% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -1.60%. Year-to-date (YTD), CRH shares are showing a performance of -0.61% which increased to 12.23% 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 7.55 million. The stock is currently trading -4.07% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 0.03% for SMA50 and it goes to -2.61% lower than SMA200.
CRH Plc (NYSE: CRH) currently have 676.64M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 85.01% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $62.17B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.23. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.46, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.73 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.26 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 1.98% while standing at 2.03% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that CRH Plc (CRH) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 2.06 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 2.3 and it is 6.36 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 1.98 which is 2.16 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 1.86 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 3.96% while it is estimated to increase by 11.15% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.61% 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.
