Is the business good?
How good a business is CRH?
CRH plc earns 11% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
11%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.2 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 14%
Operating margin · Building Materials median 18% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- −0.02×
Cash conversion · 0.66× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.3%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 11% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 12% |
| FY2024 | 14% |
| FY2025 | 15% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 36%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 14%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- −0.18%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $38.6B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$71M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $3.84B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 11%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.