Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-Q ☒QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026 ☐TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period fromtoCommission File Number: 001-32846 CRH public limited company Stonemason’s Way, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, D16 KH51, Ireland+353 1 404 1000 (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices) Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1)has filed all reports required to be filed by Section13 or 15(d) of theSecurities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant wasrequired to file such reports), and (2)has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.☒Yes☐No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to besubmitted pursuant to Rule405 of RegulationS-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for suchshorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).☒Yes☐No Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, asmaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “acceleratedfiler,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule12b-2 of the Exchange Act. Large accelerated filer☒Accelerated filer☐Non-accelerated filer☐Smaller reporting company☐Emerging growth company☐ If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transitionperiod for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section13(a) of theExchange Act.☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).☐Yes☒No As of April 20, 2026, the number of outstanding Ordinary Shares was 668,200,216 (excluding Treasury stock of35,634,977 shares). CERTAIN TERMS Except as otherwise specified or the context otherwise requires, references to 'CRH', the 'Company', 'we', 'us' or 'our' refer to CRH plc (togetherwith its consolidated subsidiaries), and references to years indicate our fiscal year ended December 31 of the respective year. References to the '2025 Form 10-K' are to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, filed with the SEC onFebruary 18, 2026. References to this 'Quarterly Report' are to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31,2026. All references to the 'Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements' are to Part I, Item 1 of this Quarterly Report. All references to the‘same period in 2025’ refer to the three months ended March 31, 2025, unless otherwise indicated. References to 'Ordinary Shares', 'Common Shares' and 'Common stock' refer to our ordinary shares of €0.32 each. Forward-Looking StatementsReliance upon the “Safe Harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, CRH is providing the following This Quarterly Report contains statements that are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition,results of operations, business, viability, and future performance of CRH and certain of the plans and objectives of CRH. These forward-lookingstatements may generally, but not always, be identified by the use of words such as “will”, “anticipates”, “should”, “could”, “would”, “targets”,“aims”, “may”, “continues”, “expects”, “is expected to”, “estimates”, “believes”, “intends” or similar expressions. These forward-looking statementsinclude all matters that are not historical facts or matters of fact at the date of this document. In particular, the following, among other statements, are all forward looking in nature: expectations regarding CRH’s outlook for 2026, includingdrivers of CRH's performance, demand outlook, trends in CRH’s markets and key end-markets, government funding initiatives and manufacturingtrends (including public investment in infrastructure and reindustrialization activity), pricing trends, costs and weather patterns; plans andexpectations regarding business strategy and cash returns for shareholders, including expectations regarding dividends and share buybacks;plans and expectations regarding CRH’s financial capacity, including our ability to fund acquisitions and meet working capital needs, capitalexpenditures, contractual obligations, dividends, share repurchases, upcoming debt maturities and other liquidity requirements; plans andexpectations regarding the expansion of our operations and the timing and benefits of our acquisitions and divestitures; and statementsregarding the consummation (including timing thereof) of certain divestitures, incl