All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.
What did they actually do?
Has it survived what it has been through?
1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2025-02-28.
From the record
CRH Public Limited Company's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2025-02-28) (its current reports).
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What has it actually done, year after year?
+6.4% a year over 5 filed years; profitable in 5 of 5.
From the record
CRH Public Limited Company's 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $29 billion in fiscal 2021 to $37 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.4% a year; it rose in 4 of 4 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 5 of 5 of those years (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How has it treated the people who own it?
Share count shrank 4.0% a year. 37% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 4 purchases.
From the record
Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, CRH Public Limited Company's diluted share count shrank about 4.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 37% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 4 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $1 million (their Form 4 filings).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are they doing right now?
Is it financially healthy right now?
ROE 15%: 15¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 57%: owes 57¢ per asset dollar.
From the record
Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, CRH Public Limited Company earned about 15 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 23 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 57 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How strong is its position in its industry?
top 32% of 14 in its family; net margin 10%.
From the record
CRH Public Limited Company's standing among 14 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $37 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 4% by size; a net margin of 10% ranks in the top 46%; revenue growth of 4.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 46% (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are the people in charge doing?
SI estimate 6.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).
SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed
From the record
SI estimate, not a filed reading: CRH Public Limited Company's leadership is put at 6.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 35% of 10 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2025-01-02 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 1.9 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.
What are they set up to do next?
How much room does it have to grow?
top 39% of 14 in its family for room to expand.
From the record
CRH Public Limited Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $4.1 billion against debt of $18 billion leaves -23% of its assets as net cash, bottom 32% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 7.8% of revenue (top 32%); a gross margin of 36.1% (top 18%) (its annual report).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What could actually drive growth from here?
top 32% of 14 in its family for growth drivers.
From the record
CRH Public Limited Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.6% a year over the last three filed years against 6.4% over all 5, slowing (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew 5.3% (top 32%); capital spending grew 21.2% a year (top 25%) (its annual reports). CRH Public Limited Company reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Americas Materials Solutions at $17 billion (46%), International Solutions at $13 billion (36%), Americas Building Solutions at $7.1 billion (19%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?
top 42% of 13 in its family for expectations against reality.
From the record
CRH Public Limited Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $37 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1% above the $37 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 42% of its family); net income of $3.8 billion against a prior three-year average of $3.5 billion (top 42%); a net margin of 10% against 10.2% before (top 42%) (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made