CRH Plc (NYSE:CRH) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.67% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $105.96.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $104.22, falling within a range of $104.55 and $106.24. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.377 whereas the PE ratio is 21.19 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $105.58, and the low was $71.18. On the whole, CRH has fluctuated by 14.32% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of CRH Plc currently standing at about $71.98 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.40, with its dividend yield at 1.32%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 36.03B, with a low estimate of 8.83B and a high estimate of 9.19B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 9B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that CRH’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.67, with the price of CRH currently trading nearly 5.38% and 8.27% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 67.39, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.78% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.90%. Furthermore, CRH Plc (CRH)’s beta value is 1.37, and its average true range (ATR) is 2.28.
A comparison of CRH Plc (CRH) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CRH showed an intraday change of 1.67% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 43.50%%.
Data on historical trading for CRH Plc (NYSE:CRH) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 4.63 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.53 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 679.83 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.01% of CRH Plc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 79.15% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 12.04 million shares as on 2025-01-31, resulting in a short ratio of 3.71. According to the data, the short interest in CRH Plc (CRH) stood at 178.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-31 reached 12.47 million. The stock has risen by 14.53% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CRH stock heading into the next quarter.
