With 2.36 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 7.8 million shares. During the session, the Building Materials company that operates in wider Basic Materials sector, reached to the highest price of $87.97 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $87.12. The 52-week range on CRH shows that it touched its highest point at $90.96 and its lowest point at $51.59 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $100.55. With its current market cap of 59.89 billion, CRH has annualized dividend of $1.33 while the current yield stands at 1.52%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.38.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of CRH was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.37%, but this was up by 4.35% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 12.30% while six-month performance rose 10.59%. The stock gained 63.38% in the past year, while it has gained 26.84% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for CRH yields 3.89 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.99. For the next quarter, that number is 2.11. This implies an EPS growth rate of 18.26% for this year and 8.87% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 10.27% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 26.26%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 692.10 million CRH shares are outstanding with a float of 676.89 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-08-15, short shares totaled 7.13 million, which was 104.0 higher than short shares on 1721001600. In addition to Mr. Albert Jude Manifold FCPA, MBA, MBS as the firm’s Group Chief Executive & Executive Director, Mr. Jim Mintern serves as its CFO & Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.89828 of CRH’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2024-06-30, CRH reported revenue of $9654000000.0 and operating income of $1727000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $2210000000.0 and diluted EPS was $1.88.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for CRH since 0 analysts follow the stock currently. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
