Linde (LIN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Linde in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" LIN shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in LIN, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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13 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Linde's stock. Their LIN share price targets range from $415.00 to $540.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $456.79 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.2% from the stock's current price.
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Linde's stock was trading at $410.71 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, LIN stock has increased by 8.8% and is now trading at $446.79.
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Linde saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 6,300,000 shares, an increase of 51.4% from the March 15th total of 4,160,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,360,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.7 days. Approximately 1.3% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2024.
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Linde will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, May 2nd at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Linde plc (NASDAQ:LIN) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 6th. The basic materials company reported $3.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.49 by $0.10. The basic materials company had revenue of $8.30 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $8.04 billion. Linde had a net margin of 18.87% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.06%. Linde's quarterly revenue was up 5.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $3.16 EPS.
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Linde declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 27th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, March 14th will be paid a dividend of $1.39 per share on Thursday, March 28th. This represents a $5.56 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.24%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, March 13th. This is a positive change from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.88.
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Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) pays an annual dividend of $5.56 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.25%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 44.13%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LIN will have a dividend payout ratio of 32.25% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETF (IYM), Vanguard Materials ETF (VAW), ProShares Ultra Materials (UYM), iShares Global Materials ETF (MXI), Martin Currie Sustainable International Equity ETF (MCSE), Neuberger Berman Carbon Transition & Infrastructure ETF (NBCT), Direxion Hydrogen ETF (HJEN) and Harbor International Compounders ETF (OSEA).

Linde updated its FY24 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $15.25-15.65 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $15.47.

Linde's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Perpetual Ltd (0.17%), AMF Tjanstepension AB (0.16%), Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.08%), Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.04%), Guyasuta Investment Advisors Inc. (0.02%) and Czech National Bank (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Andreas Opfermann, David P Strauss, Guillermo Bichara, John Panikar, Juergen Nowicki, Matthew J White, Oliver Pfann, Sanjiv Lamba, Sean Durbin and Stephen F Angel.
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