NYSE:LIN - Linde Stock Price, Forecast & News

Linde's stock was trading at $173.92 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, LIN shares have decreased by 3.8% and is now trading at $167.34. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Linde in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Linde.

Linde is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, May 8th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Linde.

Linde PLC (NYSE:LIN) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 13th. The basic materials company reported $1.89 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.84 by $0.05. The basic materials company earned $7.08 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.95 billion. Linde had a return on equity of 7.54% and a net margin of 8.09%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.46 EPS. View Linde's earnings history.

Linde declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 25th. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.963 per share on Friday, March 20th. This represents a $3.85 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.30%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 5th. This is an increase from Linde's previous quarterly dividend of $0.88. View Linde's dividend history.

Linde updated its FY 2020 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 13th. The company provided EPS guidance of 8.00-8.25 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $8.09.

19 analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Linde's shares. Their forecasts range from $184.00 to $255.00. On average, they anticipate Linde's share price to reach $229.23 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 37.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Linde.

Media headlines about LIN stock have trended very positive on Saturday, InfoTrie reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Linde earned a daily sentiment score of 3.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the basic materials company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutLinde.

Linde saw a decline in short interest in the month of February. As of February 14th, there was short interest totaling 5,650,000 shares, a decline of 5.0% from the January 30th total of 5,950,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,430,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 4.0 days. Currently, 1.1% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Linde's Current Options Chain.

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

Linde's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (3.97%), Capital Research Global Investors (2.85%), Norges Bank (2.51%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.49%), FMR LLC (1.91%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.65%). Company insiders that own Linde stock include Anne K Roby, Bernd Hugo Eulitz, Christian Bruch, Eduardo F Menezes, Franz Fehrenbach, Matthew J White, Robert L Wood, Stephen F Angel and Thomas Enders. View institutional ownership trends for Linde.

LIN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital World Investors, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., FMR LLC, D1 Capital Partners L.P., Capital Research Global Investors, FIL Ltd, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, and CI Investments Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Linde company stock in the last year include Anne K Roby, Bernd Hugo Eulitz, Christian Bruch, Eduardo F Menezes, Matthew J White, and Stephen F Angel. View insider buying and selling activity for Linde.

LIN stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Norges Bank, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Stifel Financial Corp, Madison Asset Management LLC, Toronto Dominion Bank, M&G Investment Management Ltd., Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, and Geode Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have bought Linde stock in the last two years include Christian Bruch, Franz Fehrenbach, Stephen F Angel, and Thomas Enders. View insider buying and selling activity for Linde.

Shares of LIN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of LIN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $167.34.

Linde has a market capitalization of $91.19 billion and generates $28.23 billion in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $2.29 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.34 on an earnings per share basis. Linde employs 79,886 workers across the globe. View additional information about Linde.

The official website for Linde is http://www.linde.com/.

Linde's mailing address is The Priestley Centre 10 Priestley Road Surrey Research Park, Guildford X0, GU2 7XY. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at 44-14-8324-2200 or via email at [email protected]