Linde Stock Forecast, Price & News

17 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Linde in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" Linde stock.
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17 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Linde's stock. Their LIN stock forecasts range from $330.00 to $404.00. On average, they expect Linde's share price to reach $367.71 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 35.9% from the stock's current price.
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Linde's stock was trading at $346.43 on January 1st, 2022. Since then, LIN stock has decreased by 21.9% and is now trading at $270.63.
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Linde is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, July 29th 2022.
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Linde plc (NYSE:LIN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April, 28th. The basic materials company reported $2.93 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $2.78 by $0.15. The basic materials company earned $8.20 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $8.09 billion. Linde had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.62% and a net margin of 12.66%. Linde's quarterly revenue was up 13.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $2.49 earnings per share.
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Linde announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 27th. Shareholders of record on Friday, June 3rd will be given a dividend of $1.17 per share on Friday, June 17th. This represents a $4.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.73%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 2nd.
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Linde(NYSE:LIN) pays an annual dividend of $4.68 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.64%. Linde has been increasing its dividend for 31 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio of Linde is 60.31%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Linde will have a dividend payout ratio of 35.40% next year. This indicates that Linde will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Linde updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Monday, May, 9th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $11.65-$11.90 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $11.02. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

14 employees have rated Linde CEO Vincent L. Sadusky on Glassdoor.com. Vincent L. Sadusky has an approval rating of 59% among Linde'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 shareholders include Red Spruce Capital LLC (0.00%), Insight Wealth Strategies LLC (0.00%) and M&R Capital Management Inc. (0.00%). Company insiders that own Linde stock include Andreas Opfermann, Anne K Roby, Bernd Hugo Eulitz, Christian Bruch, Eduardo F Menezes, Franz Fehrenbach, John Panikar, Juergen Nowicki, Kelcey E Hoyt, Sanjiv Lamba and Stephen F Angel.
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LIN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Red Spruce Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Linde company stock in the last two years include Andreas Opfermann, Eduardo F Menezes, John Panikar, Juergen Nowicki, Kelcey E Hoyt, Sanjiv Lamba, and Stephen F Angel.
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LIN stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Insight Wealth Strategies LLC, and M&R Capital Management Inc..
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One share of LIN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $270.63.

Linde (NYSE:LIN) has a market capitalization of $136.05 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 $7.76 on an earnings per share basis.

Linde employs 72,327 workers across the globe.

Linde was founded in 1879.

Linde's mailing address is The Priestley Centre 10 Priestley Road Surrey Research Park, Guildford X0, GU2 7XY. The official website for Linde 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.