LIN · Basic Materials
What a holder would want to know before buying LIN: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 24% above the lowest point of the past year and 12% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 50% of days and more expensive on 50%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 95% of days.
1% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more twice in 10 years. The deepest fall was 33%; the longest took 14 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.
Now 12% below the Jul 2026 peak.
Linde plc · Basic Materials · Specialty Chemicals · a mega-cap worth $222.99B
Linde plc operates as an industrial gas company worldwide. The company offers atmospheric gases, including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases; and process gases, such as hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, carbon…
revenue profit
Sales of $33.99B in 2025, with $6.90B of profit. Sales grew in 2 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 20 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 6.7 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $31 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $25 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 1.33% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Sep 3.
28 analysts: 22 say buy, 5 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $543.04 (range $400.00–$580.00).
Insiders made 1 purchase and 1 sale in the last 6 months.
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