CRH, the Ireland-based building materials group, announced Monday it will acquire Dallas-based Arcosa in an all-cash deal worth $8.5 billion. CRH is offering $150 per share for Arcosa, a 25% premium to its 60-day volume-weighted average price as of June 18.
Arcosa stock jumped 7.5% to $146.05 in premarket trading on Monday. CRH slipped 0.6% to around $110.61.
The $150-per-share offer also sits 10.4% above Arcosa’s closing price from the prior Thursday.
The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.
Arcosa owns quarries, yards, and asphalt plants across the U.S. Its Engineered Structures business is a major player in the energy transmission market — the infrastructure that moves electricity across the grid.
That business has been drawing investor attention. Demand for grid modernization has been climbing, driven by the rapid growth of AI data centers and broader energy consumption.
CRH CEO Jim Mintern said in a statement: “As demand for U.S. energy and utility infrastructure solutions accelerates, this transaction places CRH at the forefront of an immense growth opportunity.”
CRH has been on an acquisition run. Over the past two years, it has completed nearly 80 deals totaling $9.1 billion. This move is its biggest since the €6.5 billion purchase of cement assets from Holcim and Lafarge back in 2015.
The Arcosa deal fits a broader pattern in the U.S. building products sector. Earlier this year, QXO struck a $17 billion deal to acquire TopBuild. Last year, Commercial Metals Company picked up Foley Products for $1.84 billion. Scale and localized supply chains are driving much of this consolidation.
For CRH, the pull is clear: Arcosa’s energy transmission segment gives it direct exposure to one of the most active infrastructure buildout cycles in recent memory.
CRH expects the deal to be accretive to earnings within the first 12 months after closing. The company is targeting run-rate cost synergies of $175 million by year three.
J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley are advising CRH on the transaction. Arcosa has brought in Evercore and Goldman Sachs as its financial advisors.
CRH’s previous largest acquisition was the 2015 cement asset purchase, a deal that reshaped the company’s North American footprint. This one could do the same in the infrastructure space.
Arcosa is based in Texas and operates critical infrastructure across the energy, transportation, and construction sectors.
The deal values Arcosa at $8.5 billion on a total enterprise basis.
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