CRH nets $3.8B in 2025

New York- and Dublin-based CRH, which operates companies that provide aggregates, paving materials and water utility services in North America, Europe and Australia, has reported net income of $3.8 billion in 2025, marking an 8 percent increase from the 2024 figure.

CRH says it garnered total revenues of $37.4 billion last year, representing a 5 percent increase from the $35.6 billion generated in 2024.

The company credits its 2025 results to “favorable end market demand, disciplined commercial execution and contributions from acquisitions.”

CRH indicates it spent more than $4 billion last year to undertake 38 acquisitions and that it retains “significant financial capacity to capitalize on” more such transactions in its pipeline.

Last year, the Ireland-based CRH plc business unit announced its acquisition of North American Aggregates (NAA), a Perth Amboy, New Jersey-based supplier of aggregate products, including recycled concrete.

CRH says its largest acquisition in 2025 was that of Utah-based Eco Material Technologies, a supplier of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) made from fly ash and other materials diverted from landfills and disposal. CRH paid “a total consideration of $2.1 billion” for Eco Material, the firm says.

“Our balance sheet strength, cash generation capabilities and disciplined approach to capital allocation enabled us to deploy $5.8 billion in value-accretive growth investments across our connected portfolio while also returning $2.2 billion to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks,” says CRH CEO Jim Mintern regarding 2025.

“We enter 2026 with confidence and expect favorable end market dynamics as well as the continued execution of our superior strategy to underpin another year of growth and value creation for our shareholders,” adds Mintern.

In slides accompanying its further quarter and full year 2025 presentation to investors, CRH says it anticipates strong state and federal highway spending this year, adding that a survey of 2026 state transportation budgets shows a 6 percent increase in such funding.

Adds the aggregates and paving materials provider, about 50 percent of 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) highway funds have yet to be deployed, citing a late 2025 estimate by the Washington-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA).

CRH also says it acquired some 8 million tons per year of aggregates production assets last year. The company says it now has 230 million tons of “annualized volumes” of aggregates production in the United States.

In the sustainability portion of its website, CRH says globally it used more than 44.5 million metric tons of recyclable discarded materials and byproducts in 2024.