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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
LIN Linde	$445.06 -0.4%	$455.01	$350.60 ▼ $477.71	$214.33B	0.93	2.23 million shs	1.46 million shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
LIN Linde	+0.15%	+0.50%	-4.54%	+9.58%	+22.05%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
LIN Linde	3.418 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	2.5	0.0	2.6	2.5	2.5

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
LIN Linde	2.54	Moderate Buy	$456.79	2.63% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest WRM, LIN, GBE, AQD, and MEY Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/18/2024	LIN Linde	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Neutral ➝ Buy	$510.00
4/11/2024	LIN Linde	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$480.00 ➝ $540.00
4/10/2024	LIN Linde	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Neutral	$475.00 ➝ $500.00
3/27/2024	LIN Linde	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Buy ➝ Neutral	$482.00 ➝ $510.00
3/26/2024	LIN Linde	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$503.00 ➝ $510.00
3/7/2024	LIN Linde	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$434.00 ➝ $503.00
3/1/2024	LIN Linde	Wolfe Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Peer Perform
2/16/2024	LIN Linde	TD Cowen Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Market Perform	$395.00 ➝ $455.00
2/7/2024	LIN Linde	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$470.00 ➝ $480.00
2/7/2024	LIN Linde	Mizuho Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$430.00 ➝ $434.00

(Data available from 4/23/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
LIN Linde	$32.85B	6.52	$22.22 per share	20.03	$84.72 per share	5.25

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
LIN Linde	$6.20B	$12.60	35.32	25.80	2.91	18.87%	17.06%	8.80%	5/2/2024 (Confirmed)

Latest WRM, LIN, GBE, AQD, and MEY Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
5/2/2024	N/A	LIN Linde	$3.68	N/A	-$3.68	N/A	N/A	N/A
2/6/2024	12/31/2023	LIN Linde	$3.49	$3.59	+$0.10	$4.02	$8.04 billion	$8.30 billion

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
LIN Linde	$5.56	1.25%	N/A	44.13%	1 Years

Latest WRM, LIN, GBE, AQD, and MEY Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
2/27/2024	LIN Linde	quarterly	$1.39	1.2%	3/13/2024	3/14/2024	3/28/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
LIN Linde	0.33	0.80	0.67

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
LIN Linde	82.80%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
LIN Linde	0.70%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
LIN Linde	66,323	481.58 million	478.21 million	Not Optionable

WRM, LIN, GBE, AQD, and MEY Headlines

Source	Headline
	2,820 Shares in Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) Purchased by GAMMA Investing LLC marketbeat.com - April 23 at 6:52 PM
	Linde inks two deals with China South Steel gasworld.com - April 23 at 4:27 PM
	3 Stocks That Look Ready to Rally in a Recovering Market barrons.com - April 23 at 12:49 PM
	BMW Spirits Boosted by Imola Performance sportscar365.com - April 23 at 7:59 AM
	GAWDA SMC: Reshoring of US manufacturing spurs industrial gas market growth gasworld.com - April 23 at 7:59 AM
	Linde De-captivates Air Separation Unit and Extends Agreement with China South Steel, Member of China Baowu Steel Group accesswire.com - April 23 at 6:20 AM
	HSBC's Asia strategist outlines key reasons for bright investment prospects in India cnbctv18.com - April 23 at 2:10 AM
	Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) Shares Sold by New York State Common Retirement Fund marketbeat.com - April 22 at 9:33 PM
	Ardevora Asset Management LLP Sells 42,158 Shares of Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) marketbeat.com - April 21 at 8:44 PM
	Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) Position Lifted by Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd marketbeat.com - April 20 at 4:59 PM
	Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) Rating Increased to Buy at Mizuho americanbankingnews.com - April 20 at 6:44 AM
	Linde plc to Post Q1 2024 Earnings of $3.66 Per Share, Seaport Res Ptn Forecasts (NASDAQ:LIN) americanbankingnews.com - April 20 at 1:32 AM
	The Hydrogen Stream: Linde plans 5 MW electrolyzer in Brazil pv-magazine.com - April 19 at 1:47 PM
	Andrew Hill Investment Advisors Inc. Takes Position in Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) marketbeat.com - April 19 at 12:41 PM
	Mizuho Upgrades Linde (LIN) msn.com - April 19 at 8:47 AM
	Seaport Res Ptn Comments on Linde plc's Q1 2024 Earnings (NASDAQ:LIN) marketbeat.com - April 19 at 8:17 AM
	Brokers Issue Forecasts for Linde plc's Q2 2024 Earnings (NASDAQ:LIN) americanbankingnews.com - April 19 at 2:16 AM
	Calamos Advisors LLC Has $100.36 Million Holdings in Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) marketbeat.com - April 18 at 4:49 PM
	Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) Stock Rating Upgraded by Mizuho marketbeat.com - April 18 at 8:28 AM
	Linde to Increase Green Hydrogen Production in Brazil accesswire.com - April 18 at 6:20 AM
	Q2 2024 EPS Estimates for Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) Decreased by Seaport Res Ptn marketbeat.com - April 18 at 5:59 AM
	BASF, SABIC and Linde start up first large-scale electric steam-cracking furnace chemengonline.com - April 17 at 8:06 PM
	Top Research Reports for Eli Lilly, Linde & Caterpillar finance.yahoo.com - April 17 at 8:06 PM
	Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) Shares Bought by Daiwa Securities Group Inc. marketbeat.com - April 17 at 7:00 PM

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Company Descriptions

Linde

NASDAQ:LIN

Linde plc operates as an industrial gas company in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South Pacific. It offers atmospheric gases, including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases; and process gases, such as carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases, and acetylene. The company also designs and constructs turnkey process plants for third-party customers, as well as for the gas businesses in various locations, such as air separation, hydrogen, synthesis, olefin, and natural gas plants. It serves a range of industries, including healthcare, chemicals and energy, manufacturing, metals and mining, food and beverage, and electronics. The company was founded in 1879 and is based in Woking, the United Kingdom.

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