Transaction in Own Shares

1st August 2022

CRH plc Transaction in Own Shares

CRH plc ('CRH') announces that on 29th July 2022 it purchased the following number of its ordinary shares (the 'ordinary shares') on Euronext Dublin, from CRH's broker UBS. The ordinary shares purchased will be held as treasury shares.

Euronext Dublin

Number of ordinary shares purchased: 

5,798

Highest price paid per share:

€37.3100

Lowest price paid per share:

€37.0000

Volume weighted average price paid:

€37.1612

The purchases form part of CRH's intention to buy back ordinary shares of up to $300 million in the period to 30th September 2022 following its announcement on 16th June 2022 and were affected by CRH's broker as part of the Programme announced on 16th June 2022.

Following settlement of the above transactions CRH will hold 16,433,136 of its ordinary shares in treasury which represents 2.123% of the issued ordinary share capital of CRH. Ordinary shares held in treasury do not have any voting rights. Following settlement, CRH will have 757,707,202 ordinary shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).

In accordance with Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 (the Market Abuse Regulation) (including as it forms part of retained EU law in the United Kingdom ('UK') from time to time and, where relevant, pursuant to the UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the UK's Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019), a detailed breakdown of individual trades made on 29th July 2022 by UBS on behalf of CRH as part of the buyback programme is scheduled to this announcement.

Contact

Diarmuid Enright

Assistant Company Secretary

Tel: 00 3531 6344340

Transaction Details

Issuer name:

CRH plc

LEI

549300MIDJNNTH068E74

ISIN:

IE0001827041

Intermediary name:

UBS Europe SE

Intermediary code:

5299007QVIQ7IO64NX37

Time zone:

BST

Currency:

EUR

Date of Transactions:

29/07/2022

Aggregated Information

Trading venue

Currency

Volume Weighted Average Price

Aggregated volume

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

EUR

37.1612

5,798

Euronext Dublin

Number ofShares

Price per Share (EUR)

Currency

Trade Time

Trading Venue

MatchID

281

37.02

EUR

09:00:20

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1484732

247

37.00

EUR

09:03:31

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1490709

29

37.07

EUR

09:08:48

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1501538

139

37.07

EUR

09:08:48

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1501536

120

37.07

EUR

09:08:48

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1501534

298

37.12

EUR

09:14:15

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1508969

19

37.10

EUR

09:24:01

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1522956

239

37.10

EUR

09:24:03

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1523038

290

37.16

EUR

09:35:52

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1537917

14

37.16

EUR

09:35:52

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1537915

293

37.24

EUR

09:43:51

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1549124

250

37.27

EUR

10:00:20

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1571639

298

37.30

EUR

10:03:40

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1575578

268

37.27

EUR

10:13:35

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1587388

267

37.21

EUR

10:23:25

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1599824

264

37.31

EUR

10:35:00

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1615036

307

37.24

EUR

10:46:34

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1632114

260

37.10

EUR

13:01:04

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1758615

58

37.17

EUR

13:08:42

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1765789

231

37.17

EUR

13:08:42

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1765787

249

37.11

EUR

13:16:13

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1772953

247

37.04

EUR

13:32:17

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1789954

270

37.13

EUR

13:55:56

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1815784

234

37.09

EUR

14:25:19

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1854348

68

37.09

EUR

14:25:19

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1854346

308

37.16

EUR

14:35:34

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1882564

50

37.30

EUR

14:48:43

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1922905

200

37.30

EUR

14:48:43

Euronext Dublin (XMSM)

1922903