Linde - LIN Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Linde in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 14 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" LIN shares.
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18 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Linde's stock. Their LIN share price forecasts range from $260.00 to $402.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $351.69 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 9.1% from the stock's current price.
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Linde's stock was trading at $326.18 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, LIN stock has decreased by 1.2% and is now trading at $322.42.
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Linde saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,710,000 shares, an increase of 12.4% from the December 31st total of 3,300,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,860,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Currently, 0.8% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 7th 2023.
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Linde will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 7th at 9:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Linde plc (NYSE:LIN) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October, 28th. The basic materials company reported $2.73 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.67 by $0.06. The basic materials company had revenue of $7.67 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $7.53 billion. Linde had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 14.26% and a net margin of 11.39%. The firm's revenue was up 11.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company posted $2.15 EPS.
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Linde declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 2nd will be paid a dividend of $1.17 per share on Friday, December 16th. This represents a $4.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, December 1st.
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Linde (NYSE:LIN) pays an annual dividend of $4.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.45%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 30 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 61.90%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LIN will have a dividend payout ratio of 36.08% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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14 employees have rated Linde Chief Executive Officer Vincent L. Sadusky on Glassdoor.com. Vincent L. Sadusky has an approval rating of 59% among the company's employees. This puts Vincent L. Sadusky in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Linde trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LIN."

Linde's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Parnassus Investments LLC (0.58%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.36%), New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.18%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.18%), AKO Capital LLP (0.17%) and ProShare Advisors LLC (0.14%). Insiders that own company stock include Andreas Opfermann, Christian Bruch, David P Strauss, Eduardo F Menezes, Franz Fehrenbach, John Panikar, Juergen Nowicki, Kelcey E Hoyt, Sanjiv Lamba and Stephen F Angel.
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One share of LIN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $322.42.

Linde (NYSE:LIN) has a market capitalization of $158.81 billion and generates $30.79 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $3.83 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.56 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 72,327 workers across the globe.

Linde's mailing address is The Priestley Centre 10 Priestley Road Surrey Research Park, Guildford X0, GU2 7XY. The official website for the company is www.linde.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 441483242200, via email at investor.relations@linde.com, or via fax at 800-772-9985.