NYSE:CRH - CRH Stock Price, Price Target & More

CRH trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CRH."

CRH announced a semiannual dividend on Monday, March 5th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 12th will be given a dividend of $0.6011 per share on Friday, May 11th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.5%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 9th. This is an increase from CRH's previous semiannual dividend of $0.48. View CRH's Dividend History.

6 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for CRH's shares. Their forecasts range from $32.50 to $37.00. On average, they anticipate CRH's share price to reach $34.75 in the next twelve months. View Analyst Ratings for CRH.

CRH saw a increase in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 1,116,953 shares, an increase of 63.6% from the April 13th total of 682,619 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 609,747 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.8 days.

Some companies that are related to CRH include HeidelbergCement (HDELY), Cemex (CX), Anhui Conch Cement (AHCHY), Eagle Materials (EXP), Loma Negra (LOMA), Cementos Pacasmayo (CPAC) and China National Materials (CASDY).

News coverage about CRH stock has trended somewhat positive this week, Accern reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. CRH earned a daily sentiment score of 0.18 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the construction company an impact score of 47.20 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

CRH's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Partners (0.89%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (0.29%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.21%), BlackRock Inc. (0.16%), Northern Trust Corp (0.10%) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.07%). View Institutional Ownership Trends for CRH.

CRH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Point72 Asset Management L.P., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Profund Advisors LLC, Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC, US Bancorp DE and Employees Retirement System of Texas. View Insider Buying and Selling for CRH.

CRH stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Partners, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Banco BTG Pactual S.A., Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Citigroup Inc., Northern Trust Corp, Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. and Wells Fargo & Company MN. View Insider Buying and Selling for CRH.

Shares of CRH can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CRH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.52.

CRH has a market capitalization of $31.02 billion and generates $29.70 billion in revenue each year. The construction company earns $2.14 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.50 on an earnings per share basis. CRH employs 86,778 workers across the globe.

CRH's mailing address is Belgard Castle Clondalkin, Dublin L2, Dublin 22. The construction company can be reached via phone at 353-1634-4340 or via email at [email protected]