Headquartered in 43 Church Street West, Woking Fiscal year ends December NASDAQ: LIN linde.com
Linde plc is a global industrial gases and engineering company, with 2025 sales of $34 billion. It produces and distributes atmospheric, process, ultra-high-purity and specialty gases. Its end markets include chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, and metals and mining. Many customers are served under long-term sale-of-gas contracts. Applications include:
- Specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing
- Medical oxygen
- Space exploration and launch technologies
- Clean hydrogen production and carbon capture
Linde reports through geographic gas segments (Americas, APAC and EMEA) and a Linde Engineering segment. Linde Engineering designs and sells gas processing plants and equipment to third parties. The company's capital program is supported by a project backlog of about $11 billion, including a $7.9 billion contractual sale of gas backlog. Electronics is a key source of current proposal activity. Updated
Linde beat consensus on both lines for a sixth straight quarter, with underlying sales growth of 5%. The $11 billion project backlog, fed by electronics demand, is what backs full-year adjusted EPS guidance of $17.82 to $17.92.
Linde reports at 5:30 AM ET with consensus at $4.52 EPS on $9.16 billion in revenue, and the last four quarters produced just two beats, the rest in line. With margins already priced for perfection at a $234 billion market cap, the industrial demand and hydrogen spending commentary matters more than the number.
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Linde plc is a global industrial gases and engineering company, with 2025 sales of $34 billion. It produces and distributes atmospheric, process, ultra-high-purity and specialty gases.
24/7 Wall St.'s 12-month price target for LIN is $560.67, rated Buy. The Wall Street consensus target is $545.26. LIN price prediction →
