CRH plc (CRH) earnings on July 30, 2026

Before the market opens Q2 2026

More CRH plc earnings

Prior outlook: No statistical edge

CRH's stock fell 2.77% despite beating profit and sales forecasts, as investors sold off after an initial rise.

CRH price around the earnings

96.00

Change: -3.6%

2026-07-30, 20:00 UTC

End of the measured window
95.39 97.62 99.85 102.08 99.63
Price series around the eventClosing price per minute from before the event to the end of the measured window.No trading (market closed)
July 30, 2026
  • Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
  • End of the measured window
  • Market open
  • No trading (market closed)
  • Starting price
Price series around the event

Prior thesis

Prior outlook: No statistical edge

Thesis published
Results released

Analysts maintain strong buy with high upside, despite recent negative trend strength and a Wells Fargo price target reduction.

Context analyzed before publication

Trend
Recent negative trend strength and underperformance vs SPY, creating a potential scenario despite analyst target reduction.

Analysts

Evidence

Analyst consensus
Strong buy
Consensus average (1-5)
1.33
Analysts covering the stock
22
Average price target
142.61
Lowest price target
105
Highest price target
165
Upside to price target
43%
Revenue growth
9.1%
Forward EPS
6.7
Trailing EPS
5.19
Analyst moves in the last 60 days
2
  • Strong buy: 3
  • Buy: 16
  • Hold: 2
  • Sell: 0
  • Strong sell: 0
Strong buy
3
Buy
16
Hold
2
Sell
0
Strong sell
0
  • July 8, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
  • June 26, 2026 · Jefferies: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)

News and sentiment

Evidence

Sentiment
Sentiment
Constructive
Mention volume
Low
Normalized volume
33%
News
Sources (1)

Technicals

Evidence

Price when the context was analyzed
99.72
Average true range (ATR)
3%
Distance to 52-week high
-23.6%
14-day change (14d)
-4.1%
30-day change (30d)
-8.4%
30-day relative strength
-6.9%
SPY change (30d)
-1.5%
Nearest support
99.15
Distance to nearest support
0.6%
Nearest resistance
99.79
Distance to nearest resistance
0.1%
Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
0.91
  • Major: 99.15 (0.6% away, 0.19 ATR, 34 touches)
  • Major: 98.55 (1.2% away, 0.39 ATR, 43 touches)
  • Major: 97.92 (1.8% away, 0.61 ATR, 29 touches)
  • Major: 99.79 (0.1% away, 0.02 ATR, 53 touches)
  • Mid: 100.83 (1.1% away, 0.38 ATR, 16 touches)
  • Major: 101.5 (1.8% away, 0.6 ATR, 51 touches)

Trends

Evidence

Average earnings surprise
+2.0%
  • April 30, 2026: actual EPS -0.21 vs estimate -0.23 (surprise +8.1%)
  • February 18, 2026: actual EPS 1.51 vs estimate 1.53 (surprise -1.8%)
  • November 5, 2025: actual EPS 2.23 vs estimate 2.21 (surprise +0.9%)
  • August 6, 2025: actual EPS 1.96 vs estimate 1.94 (surprise +0.9%)

Expected move

Implied move
+6.7%
Source
Options chain

Reactions over its last 9 earnings

Median move
4.3%
75th percentile move
4.3%
90th percentile move
7.7%
Up / down moves
6 / 3
Average up move
+4.5%
Average down move
-1.9%

Monitoring and close

What CRH plc reported

Status
Finished
Actual EPS2.21
EPS estimate2.04
EPS surprise+8.3%
Revenue$10,777 million
Revenue estimate$10,652 million
Revenue surprise+1.2%

Earnings from Schneider Electric and others ease fears of an AI spending crash, keeping the sector optimistic.

Sources (9)

Pre-market second reading after the results

Verdict
Beat expectations

Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue and the price is indicating -0.1% pre-market, a move below the stock's usual reaction (about 4%). The figures don't confirm the prior scenario: that move is too small to draw conclusions from.

How the stock reacted

Consolidated
-2.8%
Max move
-4.3%

No verdict: the outlook took no direction, so there is nothing to score as a hit or a miss.