Linde plc (LIN)

NYSE: LIN · USD

$490

-0.15 (-0.0%)· Recorded snapshot

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StockMarketAgent Research · Analyzed 2026-05-08

Our latest published analysis: LIN rated Sell

LIN is rated Sell at $493.16 versus the reconciled fair value midpoint of $276.69, implying -43.89% upside/downside. Confidence is separately disclosed at 87/100.

Fair value (mid)

$277 / share

$209 – $356

Upside to FV

-43.9%

from $490

Confidence

87/100

Moat

9/10

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Market cap	$228.0B
Revenue (ttm)	35.4B
Net income (ttm)	7.2B
EPS (ttm)	$15.5
Shares out	461M
P/E (trailing)	31.6x
P/E (forward)	25.0x
Dividend	$6.40 (1.31%)
Volume	1,731,632
Beta	0.73
Price target	$548	+11.8%

Market data

Price

Recent price action with selectable time range.

Financial snapshot

Revenue (ttm): 35.4B
Net income (ttm): 7.2B
EPS (ttm): $15.5
P/E (trailing): 31.6x
P/E (forward): 25.0x
Market cap: $228.0B

Item	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5	Trend
Period	2021-12-31	2022-12-31	2023-12-31	2024-12-31	2025-12-31	Trend
Revenue	—	$33.36B	$32.85B	$33.01B	$33.99B	+0.5%
Gross profit	—	$13.91B	$15.36B	$15.86B	$16.60B	+4.5%
Operating income	—	$6.46B	$8.11B	$8.60B	$9.25B	+9.4%
Net income	—	$4.15B	$6.20B	$6.57B	$6.90B	+13.6%
EPS (diluted)	$7.33	$8.23	$12.59	$13.62	$14.61	+18.8%
EBITDA	—	$9.96B	$12.22B	$12.84B	$13.12B	+7.1%
R&D	—	$143.0M	$146.0M	$150.0M	$147.0M	+0.7%
SG&A	—	$3.11B	$3.30B	$3.34B	$3.43B	+2.5%

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BKR	Baker Hughes Company	61.1B	19.8x	2.2x	16.2%	+6.3%	+43.9%	Reduce
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	387.1B	36.3x	5.2x	18.3%	+10.2%	+98.7%	Sell
COP	ConocoPhillips	141.3B	15.5x	2.2x	11.6%	+16.8%	+30.5%	Strong Buy
NEM	Newmont Corporation	118.7B	14.3x	4.6x	27.9%	+15.6%	+68.1%	Strong Buy

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Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001707925
Company name	Linde plc
Country	United Kingdom
Country code	US
Cusip	G54950103
Employees	65,177
Employees Change	-112%
Employees Change Percent	-0.17
Enterprise value	$249B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500, NASDAQ100
Industry	Specialty Chemicals
Industry PE	47.15
Industry PE Fwd	19.5
Isin	IE000S9YS762
Last refreshed	2026-08-08
Market cap	$225.9B
Market cap category	Mega-Cap
Price	$490
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	543,888.18x
Sector	Materials
Sector PE	26.21
Sector PE Fwd	15.09
Sic	2810
Symbol	LIN
Website	https://www.linde.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.21%
EV Earnings	34.37x
EV Sales Forward	6.7x
EV/EBIT	26.55x
EV/EBITDA	18.86x
EV/FCF	50.05x
EV/Sales	7.02x
FCF yield	2.2%
Forward P/E	26.18x
P/B ratio	5.78x
P/E ratio	31.62x
P/S ratio	6.37x
PE Ratio10 Y	34.57x
PE Ratio3 Y	32.41x
PE Ratio5 Y	35.15x
PEG ratio	3.01x
PS Forward	6.08x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	26.45%
EBITDA Margin	37.25%
FCF margin	14.03%
Gross margin	48.35%
Gross Profit	$17.1B
Gross Profit Growth	6.41%
Gross Profit Growth Q	5.71%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	5.41%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	6.04%
Net Income	$7.2B
Net Income Growth	7.89%
Net Income Growth Q	9.17%
Net Income Growth Quarters	2%
Net Income Growth Years	6%
Net Income Growth3 Y	8.37%
Net Income Growth5 Y	17.09%
Pretax Margin	26.81%
Profit Margin	20.43%
Profit Per Employee	$111,144
Profitable Quarters	$34
Profitable Years	10
ROA	7.16
Roa5y	5.94
ROCE	12.98
ROE	18.4
Roe5y	13.62
ROIC	12.37
Roic5y	10.35

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	17.39%
Cagr15y	13.54%
Cagr1y	5.33%
Cagr20y	13.66%
Cagr3y	10.45%
Cagr5y	11.38%
Div CAGR10	7.83%
Div CAGR3	8.04%
Div CAGR5	8.74%
EPS Growth	10.16
EPS Growth Q	11.26
EPS Growth Quarters	2
EPS Growth Years	6
EPS Growth3 Y	10.6
EPS Growth5 Y	19.97
FCF Growth	-1.85%
FCF Growth Q	-12.68%
FCF Growth3 Y	-2.71%
FCF Growth5 Y	0.17%
OCF Growth	5.82%
OCF Growth Q	2.71%
OCF Growth10 Y	14.42%
OCF Growth3 Y	6.07%
OCF Growth5 Y	4.91%
Revenue Growth	6.63x
Revenue Growth Q	9.35x
Revenue Growth Quarters	6x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	2.32x
Revenue Growth5 Y	4.13x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.41
Assets	$88.3B
Cash	$4.9B
Current Assets	$14.2B
Current Liabilities	$16.1B
Debt	$28B
Debt EBITDA	$2.12
Debt Equity	$0.69
Debt FCF	$5.63
Equity	$40.6B
Interest Coverage	14.86
Liabilities	$47.7B
Long Term Assets	$74.2B
Long Term Liabilities	$31.6B
Net Cash	$-23.1B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-10.23
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.75
Net Debt Equity	$0.57
Net Debt FCF	$4.65
Tangible Book Value	$-410M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-0.89
WACC	7.53

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.88
Inventory Turnover	8.63
Net Working Capital	$486M
Quick ratio	0.68
Working Capital	$-2B
Working Capital Turnover	$-23.34

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	2.04%
Dividend Growth	6.96%
Dividend Growth Years	33%
Dividend per share	$6.4
Dividend Years	35
Dividend Yield	1.31%
Ex Div Date	2026-09-03
Last Dividend	$1.6
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	41.3%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	396.75%
1Y total return	5.32%
200-day SMA	475
3Y total return	34.76%
50-day SMA	512
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	71.42%
All Time High	548.2
All Time High Change	-10.62%
All Time High Date	2026-07-07
All Time Low	6.81
All Time Low Change	7,091.84%
All Time Low Date	1992-07-08
ATR	11.48
Beta	0.73
Beta1y	-0.03
Beta2y	0.33
Ch YTD	14.91
High	493
High52	548.2
High52 Date	2026-07-07
High52ch	-10.62%
Low	486.2
Low52	387.8
Low52 Date	2025-12-08
Low52ch	26.36%
Ma50ch	-4.3%
Premarket Change Percent	-0.4
Premarket Price	$488
Premarket Volume	2,943
Price vs 200-day SMA	3.16%
RSI	39.42
RSI Monthly	56.3
RSI Weekly	49.12
Sharpe ratio	0.16x
Sortino ratio	0.52
Total Return	3.35%
Tr YTD	15.66
Tr15y	571.84%
Tr1m	-9.35%
Tr1w	2.43%
Tr3m	-2.06%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	27
Analyst Count Top	5
Analyst Price Target Top	$567
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$4.48
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	9.54
Earnings Revenue Estimate	9,055,600,000x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	6.6x
Operating Income	$10B
Operating Income Growth	8.15
Operating Income Growth Q	8.79
Operating Income Growth3 Y	10.05
Operating Income Growth5 Y	15.21
Operating margin	28.2
Price target	$548
Price Target Change	$11.84
Price Target Change Top	$15.64

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	459,014,868%
Float Percent	99.57%
Net Borrowing	2,717,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.2%
Shares Institutions	87.21%
Shares Out	460,980,163
Shares Qo Q	-0.39%
Shares Yo Y	-2.04%
Short Float	1.42%
Short Ratio	2.73
Short Shares	1.42

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$4.8B
Adjusted OCF	10,353,000,000
Average Volume	2,147,116.35x
Bv Per Share	84.78
CAPEX	$-5.5B
Ch10y	319.8
Ch15y	408.6
Ch1m	-9.35
Ch1w	2.43
Ch1y	3.92
Ch20y	788
Ch3m	-2.37
Ch3y	29.69
Ch5y	60.19
Ch6m	9.31
Change	-0.03%
Change From Open	0.7
Close	490.1
Days Gap	-0.72
Depreciation Amortization	3,825,000,000
Dollar Volume	848,465,047.4
Earnings Date	2026-07-31
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$9.4B
EBITDA	$13.2B
EPS	$15.5
F Score	5
FCF	$5B
FCF EV Yield	2x
FCF Per Share	$10.79
Financing CF	-4,447,000,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,879
Goodwill	27,927,000,000
Graham Number	171.93268
Graham Upside	-64.91
Income Tax	$2.1B
Investing CF	-5,937,000,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-07-31
Last Report Date	2026-06-30
Last Split Date	2003-12-16
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-25
Lynch Fair Value	$265
Lynch Upside	-45.94
Ma150	493.4
Ma150ch	-0.7%
Ma20	504.6
Ma20ch	-2.89%
Net CF	112,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-10-30
Open	486.6
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	45.4
P FCF Ratio SBC	46.68
P OCF Ratio	21.53
P OCF Ratio SBC	21.82
Payment Date	2026-09-17
Position In Range	55.26
Post Close	490
Postmarket Change Percent	0
Postmarket Price	$490
Ppne	29,170,000,000
Pre Close	490.1
Price Date	2026-08-07
Price EBITDA	$17.11
Relative Volume	0.81x
Revenue	35,449,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.38x
Share Based Comp	136,000,000
Tax By Revenue	5.88x
Tax Rate	21.95%
Tr20y	1,195.11%
Tr6m	10.03%
Volume	1,731,632
Z Score	3.8

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What fair-value range is used for LIN?

The latest published report analyzed 2026-05-08 frames LIN around USD 209 to USD 356. This is a dated valuation range, not a live market price; check the valuation, sensitivity, and bear-case tabs before making a decision.

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