CRH plc (CRH)
Forward P/E is 15.32x against a peer median of 16.59x, a ratio of 0.92x — inside the 0.90 to 1.15 fairly priced band, near its cheap edge — with trailing P/E 15.24x and PEG 1.61. Latest-quarter revenue grew 5.6% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR), below the cluster median and with a PEG above 1.2, so the extra conditions for an undervalued label are not met. Delivered demand check: the construction materials, fertilisers, mining & steel group's median growth was 7.5% year over year — demand steady, and this company is growing a little more slowly than that pace.
What would change this label: Move to UNDERVALUED if the forward P/E compresses to about 14.9x or below (0.90x the peer median) at unchanged estimates and revenue growth rises to at least 7.5% year over year, the cluster median, with the PEG at about 1.2 or below. Move to OVERVALUED if the forward P/E rises above about 19.1x (1.15x the peer median) at unchanged estimates, or if revenue growth falls below 0% year over year while the multiple stays above 16.59x.
CRH sells cement, concrete and stone used in roads and buildings. Its shares trade at about 15 times expected earnings, a little below similar companies at about 17 times, while its sales grew about 6%. That small discount fits its slightly slower growth, so the shares look fairly priced.
Both lines start at 100 on 2020-09-01. Over the full window CRH plc returned +129.21% and the S&P 500 +118.28% (price returns; dividends not reinvested). Worst peak-to-trough fall for CRH plc: -42.4% (2021-06-04 to 2022-09-29). Source: Nasdaq official daily history.
What the label rests on
Forward P/E is 15.32x against a peer median of 16.59x, a ratio of 0.92x — inside the 0.90 to 1.15 fairly priced band, near its cheap edge — with trailing P/E 15.24x and PEG 1.61. Latest-quarter revenue grew 5.6% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR), below the cluster median and with a PEG above 1.2, so the extra conditions for an undervalued label are not met. Delivered demand check: the construction materials, fertilisers, mining & steel group's median growth was 7.5% year over year — demand steady, and this company is growing a little more slowly than that pace. The company’s forward P/E is 15.3× against a peer median of 16.6×. Its own history: UNVERIFIED — no sourced range available. Sector demand read: Delivered demand check: the construction materials, fertilisers, mining & steel group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 7.5% year over year (SEC filings) — demand steady. This company grew 5.6%, a little more slowly than the group median. Latest-quarter sales growth was +5.6% versus a year earlier (SEC filings).
| Company | Price (Oct 28, 2026) | Forward P/E | Trailing P/E |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRH plc (CRH) | $86.46 | 15.3× | 15.2× |
| NUE | $272.26 | 11.6× | 17.4× |
| STLD | $243.48 | 10.8× | 18.0× |
| VMC | $263.76 | 28.6× | 31.1× |
| MLM | $506.99 | 28.2× | 12.5× |
| FCX | $65.58 | 16.6× | 27.6× |
| Peer median | 16.6× |
Multiples: stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026. Peer set chosen by sector; the median is the middle value of the set. The label and its numbers were recorded in the programme’s label registry on Oct 28, 2026 and will be scored at 6 and 12 months.
Sales, profit and cash
Gross margin = gross profit divided by sales, from SEC filings.
Free cash flow = cash from operations minus spending on plant and equipment, both from the company’s SEC cash-flow statement. Gaps are quarters where that spending line is not separately tagged in the filings — shown as gaps, never estimated.
| Quarter | Sales | Gross margin | Net income | EPS (GAAP, diluted) | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q/E Jun 2026 2026-06-30 | $10.8B | 39.8% | $1.5B | 2.21 | $490M |
| Q/E Mar 2026 2026-03-31 | $7.4B | 27.8% | $-176M | -0.27 | $-1.2B |
| Q/E Dec 2025 2025-12-31 | $9.4B | 35.6% | $1.0B | — | — |
| Q/E Sep 2025 2025-09-30 | $11.1B | 38.9% | $1.5B | 2.21 | $1.4B |
| Q/E Jun 2025 2025-06-30 | $10.2B | 39.5% | $1.3B | 1.94 | $723M |
| Q/E Mar 2025 2025-03-31 | $6.8B | 27.2% | $-94M | -0.15 | $-1.3B |
| Q/E Dec 2024 2024-12-31 | $8.9B | 35.6% | $703M | — | $1.8B |
| Q/E Sep 2024 2024-09-30 | $10.5B | 38.6% | $1.4B | 1.97 | $981M |
| Q/E Jun 2024 2024-06-30 | $9.7B | 38.1% | $1.3B | 1.88 | $861M |
| Q/E Mar 2024 2024-03-31 | $6.5B | 27.7% | $116M | 0.16 | $-1.2B |
| Q/E Dec 2023 2023-12-31 | $8.7B | 34.0% | $701M | — | $1.8B |
| Q/E Sep 2023 2023-09-30 | $10.1B | 37.1% | $1.3B | 1.80 | $1.2B |
The last twelve reported quarters. Full 14-quarter history sits in the data pack behind this page. A dash means the figure is not tagged as a standalone quarter in the company’s SEC facts (the usual case is the fourth quarter, which many companies only report inside the full-year filing) — it is missing, not zero.
Earnings: getting better or worse?
Each box is one quarter’s earnings per share (EPS). Green means EPS was higher than the same quarter a year earlier; red means lower; a dash means the figure is not tagged in the filings.
Basis: GAAP diluted EPS from SEC company facts, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Key facts
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Company (legal name in filings) | CRH PUBLIC LTD CO |
| Chief executive | Jim Mintern (source: https://www.crh.com/team/jim-mintern/) |
| Sector | Materials — Construction Materials — sells cement, concrete, aggregates and other building materials |
| Share price (Oct 28, 2026) | $86.46 |
| Market value (market cap) | $57.1B — share price times shares outstanding of 665,284,511 (SEC filings; SEC EDGAR dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (latest)) |
| Sales, last twelve months | $38.6B |
| Net income, last twelve months | $3.8B |
| Free cash flow, last twelve months | — |
| Latest reported quarter | Q/E Jun 2026 (of 14 quarters in the data pack) |
| Six-year price return vs S&P 500 | +129.21% vs +118.28% |
| Worst peak-to-trough fall | -42.4% (2021-06-04 to 2022-09-29) |
What we could not verify
- TTM GAAP diluted EPS could not be summed from company facts because at least one of the last four quarters (typically Q4) has no standalone tagged EPS; trailing P/E is therefore taken from the labelled secondary source in valuation_label.md.
- Free cash flow is absent for one or more quarters: either the filer does not separately tag PP&E purchases in its EDGAR cash-flow facts (common for banks), or — for a successor registrant's newest quarter — the cash-flow lines are year-to-date without the prior-quarter rung needed to difference them. Affected quarters are null in the data, never estimated.
- Own-history P/E range not yet compiled for this company in the Phase 1 batch run; the label rests on peer-median, growth and PEG evidence.
- Guidance record (each quarter scored against the guidance the company gave the quarter before) is not yet compiled for this company — it is a Phase 2 layer. The earnings strip below therefore uses reported EPS versus a year earlier, which is fully sourced from filings.
The IT factor — the most exciting thing the market is overlooking — is not assessed on an X-Ray page. It belongs to the Deep Dive (Phase 2), where it gets the evidence standard it needs. Leadership-era scoring (the six years split by chief executive) is likewise a Phase 2 layer; this page names the current chief executive only, from a sourced profile.
Sources
- SEC EDGAR submissions — Filing index; company legal name.
https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000849395.json - SEC EDGAR company facts — Quarterly financial spine: revenue, gross profit, net income, GAAP diluted EPS, operating cash flow, PP&E capex, buybacks, dividends, diluted shares.
https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000849395.json - Nasdaq official daily history — Daily closes for the company; SPY (assetclass=etf) saved as raw/nasdaq_spy_raw.json over identical dates.
https://api.nasdaq.com/api/quote/CRH/historical?assetclass=stocks - Valuation multiples and peer figures — stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026; see valuation_label.md in the data pack.
Conventions: earliest-filed value per period, as first reported; cash-flow years-to-date differenced quarter by quarter; EPS never differenced; free cash flow = operating cash flow minus plant-and-equipment spending. This page is a dated snapshot — updates are new versions, never silent edits.