LONDON--CRH PLC's (CRH.LN) second quarter trading has prompted a slight upgrade to the company's half year expectations, the building materials group said Friday.

In April, CRH said it expected total group earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization or Ebitda for the first half of 2016 to be close to 1 billion euros ($1.32 billion).

In a trading update Friday, CRH said based on the "trading performance in the latter part of the second quarter, we now expect total group Ebitda for the first half of 2016 to be EUR1.1 billion."

CRH's half year results announcement is scheduled to be published on Aug. 25.

-Write to Razak Musah Baba at razak.baba@wsj.com; Twitter: @Raztweet

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

July 22, 2016 03:26 ET (07:26 GMT)

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