Linde plcLIN
KeepKeep what you own, but don't buy more for now.
- 7 good· Earnings beat
- 3 to watch· Insider selling
$525.42−1.13 (−0.21%)
Price at 3:01 PM ET
After hours · opens in 17h 24mNext open: Friday, Nov 13, 9:30 AM ETNASDAQ · Basic Materials · Chemicals · Very large company
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What would change it
Sources
- From the 10-Q for the quarter to Sep 30, reported Oct 29
- Yahoo Finance daily closes to Nov 11
Could move it to Buy more
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above8%
sales growth
Any one could move it to Sell some
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Shrinking
sales
Compared with the S&P 500
5 points
worse in one day
11 points
worse in five trading days
+24.8% in a yearsince Nov 11, 2025
The news behind our call
Today’s coverage offers no substantive company development beyond confirming Linde’s listing.
Evidence that Linde’s revenue growth is accelerating would help justify its expensive shares.
What changed
Dec 3
in 21 days
Next ex-dividend date
$6.40 a share a year at the current rate.
Overview
In plain numbers
- Revenue grew 8.2% from a year earlier, to $36.2B in the last twelve months.
- It keeps 28 cents of every revenue dollar as operating profit, up from 18 cents in FY 2021.
- It turned 14% of revenue into free cash flow: $5.1B in the last twelve months.
- It owes $26.7B and holds $3.9B in cash and investments, so net debt is $22.8B.
Key figures
- Revenue (TTM)
- $36.2B
- Revenue growth, 1 year
- +8.2%
- Net income
- $7.0B
- EPS (diluted)
- $15.05
- Gross margin
- 47.9%
- Operating margin
- 27.6%
- Return on equity
- 17.7%
- Return on capital
- 12.1%
- Debt / equity
- 0.65
- Current ratio
- 0.86
- Dividend yield
- 1.22%
- Buyback yield
- 1.99%
Key facts
- Company value
- $237B
- Price / last year's earnings
- 34.3×
- Today's range
- 524.47530.19
- Past year's range
- 385.58544.85
- Yesterday's close
- $526.55
- Swings vs the market
- 0.7×smaller
- Dividend yield
- 1.22%$6.40 a year