Materials / Specialty ChemicalsUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

LIN stock hub

LIN trades against a final fair-value range of $208.99-$355.92, with the midpoint set by the accepted valuation synthesis rather than earlier draft model outputs.

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Fair value midpoint

$277

$209 - $356

Upside to midpoint

-43.9%

Based on latest report

Confidence

87/100

Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

$228.0B

NASDAQ

Our take

Research highlights

What our analysis says

Pulled from the latest published report. The full reasoning lives under /analysis.

Biggest opportunity

Bull case

Bull: Accelerated transition to clean energy (hydrogen, carbon capture) drives higher-than-expected project backlogs. Sustained pricing power allows for continued operating margin expansion, while healthcare and electronics end-markets drive secular volume growth.

Biggest risk

Cyclical Multiple Reversion

12-24 months

Recommended action

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.

Market data

Price

Recent price action with selectable time range.

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Forecast

Targets

Bull, base, and bear cases with expected-return framing.

Valuation

Models

Fair-value bridge, DCF, owner earnings, and peer multiples.

Sensitivity

Grid

Cost-of-equity and terminal-growth stress table.

Risks

Bear case

Kill scenarios, soft-pass flags, and downside catalysts.

Earnings

Decision tree

Next earnings setup and beat / inline / miss thresholds.

Position sizing

Checkpoints

Entry, exit, conviction, and quarterly monitoring rules.

Financials

History

Revenue, margins, cash flow, and balance-sheet context.

Peers

Comps

Relative valuation and profitability against the cohort.

Moat

Durability

Economic-profit evidence and competitive advantage risk.

Industry cycle

Context

Sector phase, capital cycle, and secular tailwinds.

Scorecard

Factors

Six-factor overlay and 9-category weighted scorecard.

Recommendation

Verdict

Final action, action steps, opportunity, and biggest risk.

Perspectives

Lenses

Growth, value, and income investor reads.

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E25

P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a

Trailing P/E0

P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a

ROE18.2

P25 n/aP50 n/aP75 n/a

ROIC12.2

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Our take

Indicator catalog

All LIN market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

280

Groups with data

Currency

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Showing 280 of 280 available metrics for this ticker.

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	$250.4B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500, NASDAQ100
Industry	Specialty Chemicals
Isin	IE000S9YS762
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$228B
Market cap category	Mega-Cap
Price	$493
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	531,705.97x
Sector	Materials
Sic	2810
Symbol	LIN
Website	https://www.linde.com

Valuation

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

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	3.11%
EV Earnings	35.35x
EV Sales Forward	6.85x
EV/EBIT	25.58x
EV/EBITDA	18.42x
EV/FCF	49.13x
EV/Sales	7.22x
FCF yield	2.23%
Forward P/E	26.99x
P/B ratio	5.92x
P/E ratio	32.7x
P/S ratio	6.58x
PE Ratio10 Y	34.25x
PE Ratio3 Y	32.39x
PE Ratio5 Y	35.77x
PEG ratio	3.08x
PS Forward	6.24x

Profitability

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

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	28.24%
EBITDA Margin	39.22%
FCF margin	14.7%
Gross margin	48.77%
Gross Profit	$16.9B
Gross Profit Growth	6.07%
Gross Profit Growth Q	7.66%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	5.82%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	6.82%
Net Income	$7.1B
Net Income Growth	7.12%
Net Income Growth Q	11%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	6%
Net Income Growth3 Y	16.41%
Net Income Growth5 Y	19.48%
Pretax Margin	26.84%
Profit Margin	20.44%
Profit Per Employee	$108,658
Profitable Years	10
ROA	7.24
Roa5y	5.94
ROCE	13.8
ROE	18.23
Roe5y	13.62
ROIC	12.19
Roic5y	10.35

Growth

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

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	17.75%
Cagr15y	13.05%
Cagr1y	11.16%
Cagr20y	13.55%
Cagr3y	11.85%
Cagr5y	12.05%
Div CAGR10	7.78%
Div CAGR3	8.23%
Div CAGR5	8.91%
EPS Growth	9.43
EPS Growth Q	13.39
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	6
EPS Growth3 Y	18.88
EPS Growth5 Y	22.38
FCF Growth	3.77%
FCF Growth Q	0.79%
FCF Growth3 Y	-2.03%
FCF Growth5 Y	1.07%
OCF Growth	8.3%
OCF Growth Q	3.66%
OCF Growth10 Y	14.3%
OCF Growth3 Y	5.94%
OCF Growth5 Y	4.95%
Revenue Growth	4.96x
Revenue Growth Q	8.25x
Revenue Growth Quarters	5x
Revenue Growth Years	2x
Revenue Growth3 Y	1.29x
Revenue Growth5 Y	4.55x

Financial strength

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

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.41
Assets	$86.3B
Cash	$4B
Current Assets	$12.8B
Current Liabilities	$15.4B
Debt	$26.3B
Debt EBITDA	$1.89
Debt Equity	$0.66
Debt FCF	$5.16
Equity	$40.1B
Interest Coverage	20.14
Liabilities	$46.2B
Long Term Assets	$73.6B
Long Term Liabilities	$30.8B
Net Cash	$-22.4B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-9.81
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.65
Net Debt Equity	$0.56
Net Debt FCF	$4.39
Tangible Book Value	$-989M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-2.14
WACC	7.61

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.83
Inventory Turnover	8.74
Net Working Capital	$-141M
Quick ratio	0.62
Working Capital	$-2.6B
Working Capital Turnover	$-19.65

Dividends and buybacks

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

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	2.1%
Dividend Growth	7.27%
Dividend Growth Years	34%
Dividend per share	$6.4
Dividend Years	35
Dividend Yield	1.3%
Ex Div Date	2026-06-04
Last Dividend	$1.6
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	41.12%

Performance and technicals

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

Metric	Value
10Y total return	412.38%
1Y total return	11.15%
200-day SMA	462.5
3Y total return	39.94%
50-day SMA	496.6
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	76.61%
All Time High	521.3
All Time High Change	-5.39%
All Time High Date	2026-05-01
All Time Low	6.81
All Time Low Change	7,138.51%
All Time Low Date	1992-07-08
ATR	9.82
Beta	0.74
Beta1y	0.23
Beta2y	0.36
Ch YTD	15.66
High	497.6
High52	521.3
High52 Date	2026-05-01
High52ch	-5.39%
Low	492.3
Low52	387.8
Low52 Date	2025-12-08
Low52ch	27.18%
Ma50ch	-0.69%
Premarket Change Percent	0.19
Premarket Price	$495
Premarket Volume	695
Price vs 200-day SMA	6.62%
RSI	45.52
RSI Monthly	59.39
RSI Weekly	56.79
Sharpe ratio	0.48x
Sortino ratio	1.04
Total Return	3.39%
Tr YTD	16.05
Tr15y	529.89%
Tr1m	-0.29%
Tr1w	-2.91%
Tr3m	10.39%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	8
Analyst Ratings	Strong Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$4.27
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	8.1
Earnings Revenue Estimate	8,583,047,464x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	5.81x
Operating Income	$9.8B
Operating Income Growth	7.76
Operating Income Growth Q	8.98
Operating Income Growth3 Y	11.22
Operating Income Growth5 Y	17.28
Operating margin	28.24
Price target	$547
Price Target Change	$10.84

Ownership and float

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

Metric	Value
Float	460,681,725%
Float Percent	99.64%
Net Borrowing	1,082,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.21%
Shares Institutions	84.21%
Shares Out	462,347,310
Shares Qo Q	-0.51%
Shares Yo Y	-2.1%
Short Float	1.45%
Short Ratio	2.75
Short Shares	1.45

Other indicators

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

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$4.9B
Average Volume	2,001,250.15x
Bv Per Share	83.37
CAPEX	$-5.3B
Ch10y	331.5
Ch15y	376
Ch1m	-0.29
Ch1w	-2.91
Ch1y	9.67
Ch20y	770.1
Ch3m	10.02
Ch3y	34.61
Ch5y	64.98
Ch6m	17.28
Change	-0.14%
Change From Open	-0.17
Close	493.9
Days Gap	0.03
Depreciation Amortization	3,804,000,000
Dollar Volume	831,566,885.2
Earnings Date	2026-05-01
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$9.8B
EBITDA	$13.6B
EPS	$15.08
F Score	6
FCF	$5.1B
FCF EV Yield	2.04x
FCF Per Share	$11.02
Financing CF	-6,134,000,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,879
Goodwill	27,882,000,000
Graham Number	168.1846
Graham Upside	-65.9
Income Tax	$2B
Investing CF	-5,736,000,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-01
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	2003-12-16
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-25
Lynch Fair Value	$294
Lynch Upside	-40.42
Ma150	458.5
Ma150ch	7.55%
Ma20	501.1
Ma20ch	-1.58%
Net CF	-1,335,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-31
Open	494
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	44.74
P OCF Ratio	21.86
Payment Date	2026-06-18
Position In Range	16.92
Post Close	493.2
Postmarket Change Percent	-0.44
Postmarket Price	$491
Ppne	28,564,000,000
Pre Close	493.9
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$16.78
Relative Volume	0.84x
Revenue	34,655,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.47x
Share Based Comp	163,000,000
Tax By Revenue	5.91x
Tax Rate	22.03%
Tr20y	1,170.75%
Tr6m	18.1%
Views	84
Volume	1,686,201
Z Score	3.81

Fast facts

Decision checkpoints

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Risk gate

Named kill scenarios are reviewed before any bullish rating can stand.

Moat score

9/10

Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.

Forward P/E

25.0x

Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Sell

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Our take

Income

LIN dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+1.3%

$6.40 annual per share

Payout ratio

+41.1%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+8.9%

34 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+3.4%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-06-04

Performance

LIN stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns LIN?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+84.2%

Float: +99.6% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

LIN momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

45.5

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+6.6%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.74

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.48

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

LIN vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
BKR	Baker Hughes Company	63.4B	20.4x	2.3x	15.0%	+6.8%	+79.0%	घटाएँ
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	बेचें
COP	ConocoPhillips	138.7B	19.4x	2.3x	9.0%	+21.1%	+34.3%	मज़बूत ख़रीद
NEM	Newmont Corporation	124.4B	15.1x	5.0x	26.2%	+16.2%	+118.6%	मज़बूत ख़रीद

Questions

About LIN

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What is the current LIN stock rating?

Linde plc is currently shown with Sell in the latest report. The hub links directly to the full analysis surface where the rating, fair-value bridge, risks, and scorecard are documented together.

Where can I read the full LIN analysis?

The full report lives at /stocks/LIN/analysis. The bare ticker page is a product hub that summarizes the latest read and sends readers into the relocated analysis tabs without making the analysis surface depend on the hub.

What fair-value range is used for LIN?

The latest report frames LIN around $209 to $356. Treat that range as the entry point, then check the valuation, sensitivity, and bear-case tabs before making an investment decision.

How often is the LIN page updated?

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