Short interest in CRH PLC (NYSE:CRH) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 11.79M to 11.42M. This put 1.68% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for CRH gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of CRH's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 3.20M shares traded per day, it would take 3.57 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.