CRH Plc (NYSE:CRH) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price down by -4.09% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $94.58.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $98.61, falling within a range of $94.58 and $98.605. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.368 whereas the PE ratio was 18.78 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $110.97, and the low was $71.18. On the whole, CRH has fluctuated by -5.69% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of CRH Plc currently standing at about $64.11 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-25. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.37, with its dividend yield at 0.39%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 37.87B, with a low estimate of 6.62B and a high estimate of 7.1B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 6.79B.
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 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.08, with the price of CRH currently trading nearly -3.17% and -5.12% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 43.91, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 3.04% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.57%. Furthermore, CRH Plc (CRH)’s beta value is 1.27, and its average true range (ATR) is 3.55.
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 -4.09% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 9.54%%.
Data on historical trading for CRH Plc (NYSE:CRH) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 13.85 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 6.49 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 677.29 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.01% of CRH Plc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 80.91% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 11.54 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.5. According to the data, the short interest in CRH Plc (CRH) stood at 170.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 13.27 million. The stock has risen by 2.23% 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.
