Linde PLC (LIN) stock
Close on Nov 13, 2026Market cap $241.51BP/E 34.9Yield 1.14%
Linde PLC grew revenue 8.2% to $36.24B over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026. Operating income fell 0.2% to $9.16B, moving the operating margin from 27.4% to 25.3%. Free cash flow was $5.08B, up 0.1% from a year earlier. At the latest close the market valued the company at $241.51B, 34.9 times its earnings.
Key statistics
Valuation at the latest close; fundamentals over the trailing twelve months, balances at Sep 30, 2026
Valuation
- Market cap
- $241.51B
- P/E ratio
- 34.9
- Price to sales
- 6.66
- Price to book
- 6.13
- Dividend yield
- 1.14%
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.10%
Fundamentals
- Revenue
- $36.24B
- Net income
- $7.01B
- EPS, diluted
- $15.06
- Free cash flow
- $5.08B
- Book value per share
- $85.23
- Diluted shares
- 463M
Trading
- Next earnings
- Feb 4, 2027 (estimated, before the open)
- Previous close
- $522.49
- Open
- $526.15
- Day's range
- $521.47 – $526.94
- Volume
- 1,251,113
- Average volume (20 days)
- 2,052,365
- Index membership
- S&P 500 (since Mar 2023), Nasdaq-100 (since May 2024), Russell 1000 (since Mar 2023)
- Beta (5 years)
- 0.58
- 52-week range
- $387.78 – $548.20
- RSI (14 days)
- 64.5
- Volatility (1 year)
- 18.9%
- Relative volume
- 0.60×
- WACC
- 7.6%
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Index membership is inferred from the holdings of funds that track each index (VOO, QQQ, IWB), as reported to the SEC for Jun 30, 2026. Join dates come from quarterly fund reports since 2019, so they are accurate to the quarter.
Market cap history
Month-end market cap since 2017, using shares outstanding reported at the time
Total return vs. the S&P 500
Price change plus reinvested dividends, to the close on Nov 13, 2026. The S&P 500 is measured by the SPY fund.
| Period | LIN | S&P 500 | Difference | LIN per year | S&P 500 per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | +6.9% | -3.0% | +9.9 pts | ||
| 3 months | +10.4% | -2.8% | +13.2 pts | ||
| Year to date | +24.6% | +11.5% | +13.1 pts | ||
| 1 year | +24.4% | +13.5% | +10.9 pts | ||
| 3 years | +36.7% | +77.7% | −41.0 pts | +11.0% | +21.1% |
| 5 years | +67.0% | +72.6% | −5.6 pts | +10.8% | +11.5% |
| 10 years | +426.7% | +308.2% | +118.5 pts | +18.1% | +15.1% |
Eleven years at a glance
Fiscal years 2015 to 2025 and trailing twelve months, USD
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About Linde
Industrial Inorganic Chemicals
Linde plc is an industrial gas and engineering company that supplies atmospheric gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, and argon, alongside process gases including hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, and specialty gases. The company distributes these gases through on-site pipelines, merchant bulk liquid shipments, and packaged cylinders. Additionally, its engineering division designs and constructs processing facilities, including air separation, hydrogen, synthesis gas, and natural gas plants. Linde caters to a wide spectrum of customer markets, serving the healthcare, chemicals and energy, manufacturing, food and beverage, electronics, and metals and mining industries.
Company profile, executives and historyLinde stock: common questions
What is Linde's stock price?
LIN closed at $526.06 on Nov 13, 2026, up 0.68% on the day. Over the past 52 weeks it traded between $387.78 and $548.20.
What is Linde's market cap?
Linde was worth $241.51B at the close on Nov 13, 2026: the share price times the diluted shares outstanding.
What is LIN's P/E ratio?
LIN trades at 34.9 times earnings, based on diluted earnings per share of $15.06 over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026.
How much revenue does Linde make?
Linde reported revenue of $36.24B for the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026, up 8.2% from a year earlier.
Does Linde pay a dividend?
Yes. Linde paid $6.00 per share over the last twelve months, a yield of 1.14% at the latest price, and has raised its annual dividend 9 years in a row.
When does Linde report earnings next?
Linde is expected to report Q4 FY2026 results on Feb 4, 2027, before the open. The date is estimated from its past reporting pattern until the company confirms it.
How has LIN stock performed over the past year?
Including dividends, LIN returned +24.4% over the past year, against +13.5% for the S&P 500.
How many LIN shares are sold short?
7M shares were sold short at the latest FINRA report, 1.45% of the float, or 3.4 days of average trading volume.
Who are Linde's competitors?
Companies most similar to Linde by business, industry and size include APD, TROX, LXFR, LYB, VHI.
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