Item 1A. Risk Factors

There have been no material changes with respect to the risk factors disclosed in 'Item 1A. Risk Factors' of our 2025 Form 10-K.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities, Use of Proceeds, and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

The following table presents the number and average price of shares purchased in each month of the first quarter of fiscal year 2026:


Period	(a) Total Number of Shares Purchased	(b) Average Price Paid per Share	(c) Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs (i)	(d) Maximum Number of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
January 1 – January 31, 2026	626,600	$124.36	626,600	58,108,900
February 1 – February 28, 2026	727,065	$123.02	727,065	54,605,535
March 1 – March 31, 2026	1,570,793	$104.75	1,570,793	53,034,742
Total	2,924,458		2,924,458

(i) In May 2018, CRH announced its intention to introduce a share repurchase program to repurchase Ordinary Shares (the ‘Program’). In the first quarter of 2026, the Company returned a further $0.3 billion of cash to shareholders through the repurchase of 2,924,458 Ordinary Shares (equivalent to 0.4% of the Company’s issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares). This brought total cash returned to shareholders under the Program to $9.9 billion since its commencement in May 2018. The purchases in the first quarter of 2026 were completed under the following tranches:


Date Announced		Max Amount to be Repurchased (in $ millions)	Expiration Date
November 6, 2025	(Tranche 27)	300	February 17, 2026
February 19, 2026	(Tranche 28)	300	April 28, 2026

Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities

None.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

The information concerning mine safety violations or other regulatory matters required by Section 1503(a) of the Dodd‐Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Item 104 of Regulation S‐K (17 CFR 229.104) is included in Exhibit 95 to this Quarterly Report.

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