CRH plc stock analysis
CRH plc (CRG) Stock Price & Analysis
CRG Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- EUR 86.78 - EUR 88.08
- 52-Week Range
- EUR 70.14 - EUR 112.00
- Previous Close
- EUR 85.64
- Volume
- N/A
- Average Volume (3M)
- 538
- Market Cap
- EUR 57.69B
- Enterprise Value
- EUR 73.12B
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- EUR 5.11B
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- EUR 21.58B
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 17.1
- Beta
- 0.85
- Next Earnings
- Mar 04, 2027 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- 1.34
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- 1.52%
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Revenue Growth And Resilient Margins
CRH has sustained revenue expansion while maintaining healthy operating profitability, indicating durable demand and operational resilience. The combination of scale, improved gross margins, and a strong EBIT margin supports reinvestment and gives the company a solid base for earnings growth over coming quarters.
Expanded Infrastructure Market Position
The completed Arcosa acquisition materially strengthens CRH's North American aggregates position and broadens exposure to roads, water, energy, grid modernization, and data centers. These infrastructure-linked end markets can support durable volume growth while expected synergies improve the acquired portfolio's earnings contribution.
Operational Efficiency And Margin Upside
Velocity and connected operating initiatives create identifiable, company-specific levers for improving efficiency beyond market growth. Technology, data, automation, and quarry optimization could lower variable costs and simplify execution, supporting margin expansion and stronger earnings quality over the next several years.
Bears Say
Rising Leverage
CRH's materially higher debt burden reduces financial flexibility in a cyclical construction materials industry. Greater leverage can constrain future acquisitions, capital allocation, and the ability to absorb weaker demand, while increasing the importance of successful integration and cash generation.
Uneven Free-Cash-Flow Conversion
Although CRH generates positive cash, conversion is only moderate and has been volatile, indicating that working capital and capital spending can absorb a meaningful share of earnings. This may limit deleveraging speed and reduce flexibility to fund acquisitions, expansion, or shareholder returns internally.
Cost Inflation And Weak Residential Demand
Persistent energy, raw-material, and haulage inflation is pressuring margins, while subdued U.S. residential construction limits volume support in an important market. Difficult cost recovery during active periods could keep profitability below potential and make near-term earnings more dependent on pricing execution.
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Company Description
CRH plc
CRH plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides building materials solutions in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Americas Materials Solutions, Americas Building Solutions, and International Solutions. The company offers building materials for the construction and maintenance of public infrastructure, and commercial and residential buildings, as well as construction and renovation of transportation infrastructure, critical utility networks, commercial and residential buildings, and outdoor living spaces; paving and construction services; and produces and sells aggregates, cementitious materials, ready mixed concrete and mortars, and asphalt. It also manufactures, supplies, and delivers building products for the built environment in communities in North America; and provides building and infrastructure solutions for complex critical utility infrastructure, such as water, energy, transportation, and telecommunications projects, and outdoor living solutions for private and public spaces. In addition, the company produces and supplies precast and pre-stressed concrete products comprising vaults, pipes, and manholes; and concrete and polymer-based products, such as underground vaults, drainage systems, enclosures, and modular precast structures for applications in transportation, water, energy, and telecommunications markets. Further, it provides crushed stone, sand, and gravel; granite, limestone, and sandstone; fly ash, pozzolans, synthetic gypsum, calcined clay, and ground granulated blast-furnace slags; fencing and railing systems, lawn and garden products, and packaged concrete mixes; and concrete masonry, hardscape and related products, including pavers, blocks and curbs, retaining walls, and slabs. CRH plc was founded in 1936 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
- Sector
- Basicmaterials
- Industry
- Construction Materials
- CEO
- Jim Mintern
- Employees
- 83,032
- Website
- www.crh.com
- Address
- Stonemason’s Way, Dublin, NY, D16 KH51, IE
CRH plc (CRG) Earnings & Revenues
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CRG Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call was broadly positive. CRH reported resilient third-quarter revenue, strong performance in International Solutions, continued infrastructure and reindustrialization demand, substantial acquisition and shareholder-return activity, and multiple initiatives aimed at improving margins. The main challenges were significant energy and haulage inflation, an 80-basis-point year-over-year margin decline, weaker U.S. residential activity, and reported declines in Americas Building Solutions. Management nevertheless expressed confidence in positive price-cost spread, margin expansion, Arcosa synergies, and another year of growth in 2027.
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Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 14 | 1 | 6 |
| Technical Analysis | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Moving Averages | 11 | 0 | 1 |
