LIN

Linde plc
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Basic Materials DELAYED
Last price
490.00
▲ 7.62 (1.58%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
482.38
Prev close
482.38
Day high
492.10
Day low
482.75
Volume
3.16M
Market cap
$225.86B
P/E (TTM)
31.15
52W range
387.78 – 548.20

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
-0.00%
Prior close 482.38
VWAP
489.83
+0.04% from price
Relative volume
2.32×
Unusually busy
Session range
2.79%
481.04 – 494.46
Position in range
67%
Mid range
ATR (14D)
8.45
1.72% of price
Prior day high
485.94
PDH
Prior day low
476.58
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
4.82M
Avg 2.08M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+3.50% +1.6%
1M
+2.59% +1.4%
3M
-7.15% -11.7%
6M
-0.94% -19.1%
YTD
+14.91% +0.7%
1Y
+4.98% -11.4%
3Y
+31.58% -50.7%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

5 more panels on LIN open with an account.

Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
-142
Net selling
Buy transactions
3
5.07K shares
Sell transactions
1
5.21K shares
Net transactions
+4
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
1.0 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
1.15M
Total on file
Bought 5.07KSold 5.21K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Aug 18, 26
REYNOLDS PAULA ROSPUT
Director
BUY 100 $47.91K Direct
Jun 8, 26
INNOCENZI STEFANOS
Officer
— 4.04K — Direct
May 15, 26
WOOD ROBERT L.
Director
SELL 5.21K $2.64M Direct
Mar 10, 26
DURBIN SEAN
Chief Operating Officer
SELL 6.52K $3.11M Direct
Mar 10, 26
BICHARA GUILLERMO
Officer
SELL 4.36K $2.09M Direct
Mar 10, 26
DURBIN SEAN
Chief Operating Officer
CONVERSION 7.04K $1.22M Direct
Mar 9, 26
WEISSER ALBERTO
Director
— 470 — Direct
Mar 9, 26
WHITE MATTHEW J.
Chief Financial Officer
— 13.88K — Direct
Mar 9, 26
ENDERS THOMAS
Director
— 470 — Direct
Mar 9, 26
LAMBA SANJIV
Chief Executive Officer
— 33.92K — Direct
Mar 9, 26
KAESER JOSEF
Director
— 470 — Direct
Mar 9, 26
OSSADNIK VICTORIA
Director
— 470 — Direct
Mar 9, 26
ACHLEITNER ANN-KRISTIN
Director
— 470 — Direct
Mar 9, 26
HOYT KELCEY E.
Officer
— 1.55K — Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
ANGEL STEPHEN F
Director 565.28K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
BICHARA GUILLERMO
Officer 25.08K Sale
ENDERS THOMAS
Director 11.01K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
GLAZER BENJAMIN
Officer 15.82K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
HOYT KELCEY E.
Officer 22.62K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
LAMBA SANJIV
Chief Executive Officer 109.16K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
NOWICKI JUERGEN
Officer 18.48K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
STRAUSS DAVID PAUL
Officer — Sale
WHITE MATTHEW J.
Chief Financial Officer 86.19K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
WOOD ROBERT L.
Director 9.25K Sale

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$225.86B
Enterprise value$250.52B
Revenue (TTM)$35.45B
Gross profit$17.14B
EBITDA$13.82B
Net income$7.24B
EPS (TTM)$15.73
Free cash flow$4.16B
Total cash$4.90B
Total debt$28.01B
Book value / share$84.78
Shares outstanding460.98M
Float459.50M
Short % of float1.27%
Dividend yield1.33%
Beta (5Y)0.71

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E31.15
Forward P/E25.02
PEG ratio1.87
Price / sales—
Price / book5.78
EV / revenue7.07
EV / EBITDA18.13
Gross margin48.35%
Operating margin28.12%
Profit margin20.43%
Return on equity18.40%
Return on assets7.16%
Debt / equity68.95
Current ratio0.88
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $33.99B$33.01B$32.85B$33.36B +3.0%
Operating revenue $33.99B$33.01B$32.85B$33.36B +3.0%
Cost of revenue $17.39B$17.14B$17.49B$19.45B +1.4%
Gross profit $16.60B$15.86B$15.36B$13.91B +4.6%
Research & development $147.00M$150.00M$146.00M$143.00M -2.0%
Selling, general & admin $3.43B$3.34B$3.29B$3.11B +2.9%
Total operating expense $7.34B$7.27B$7.26B$7.45B +1.0%
Operating income $9.25B$8.60B$8.11B$6.46B +7.7%
Net interest income -$255.00M-$256.00M-$200.00M-$63.00M +0.4%
Pre-tax income $8.90B$8.57B$7.99B$5.54B +3.8%
Tax provision $1.99B$2.00B$1.81B$1.43B -0.6%
Net income $6.90B$6.57B$6.20B$4.15B +5.1%
Net income to common $6.90B$6.57B$6.20B$4.15B +5.1%
Basic EPS 14.6913.7112.708.30 +7.1%
Diluted EPS 14.6113.6212.598.23 +7.3%
EBIT $9.36B$9.06B$8.40B$5.76B +3.4%
EBITDA $13.12B$12.84B$12.22B$9.96B +2.2%
Basic shares 469.49M478.77M488.19M499.74M -1.9%
Diluted shares 472.92M482.09M492.29M504.04M -1.9%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.50
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
1.08
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
475.00
-3.1% from spot
ATM implied vol
27.9%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
-13.3%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
555
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
280
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
500.00
643 contracts
Heaviest put OI
475.00
853 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 4.494.50 +0.3%
Mar 2026 4.274.33 +1.4%
Dec 2025 4.184.20 +0.5%
Sep 2025 4.184.21 +0.8%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 4.52 19 $9.17B +6.4%
Next quarter 4.23 2 $9.18B +4.7%
Current year 17.88 27 $36.34B +6.9%
Next year 18.21 11 $38.12B +4.9%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$543.81
High target$580.00
Low target$400.00
Implied upside10.98%
Analyst count26
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy5 / 17
Hold5
Sell / Strong sell1 / 0
Held by insiders0.25%
Held by institutions88.68%
Institutions holding3.35K
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
474.91
+3.18% from price
SMA 20
468.72
+4.53% from price
SMA 50
479.61
+2.16% from price
SMA 100
497.31
-1.47% from price
SMA 200
486.86
+0.63% from price
EMA 12
475.50
+3.05% from price
EMA 26
475.13
+3.13% from price
EMA 50
480.88
+1.90% from price
RSI (14)
64.1
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
0.36
Hist 3.36
ATR (14)
8.45
1.72% of price
Realised vol 30D
14.6%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
484.81
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
452.62
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
479.61 vs 486.86
Trend bias
Above 200
+0.63%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 490.00
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.09
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.06
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
14.6%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-17.2%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-23.7%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
8.45
1.72% of price
Beta (reported)
0.71
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
5.87M
Prior 4.92M
Change vs prior
+19.4%
Shorts adding
% of float
1.27%
Normal
% of shares out
1.27%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
3.1
Liquid
Float
459.50M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

47 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Oct 5, 26 UBS MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 28, 26 Argus Research MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 11, 26 Keybanc INITIATED — Overweight
Aug 10, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Aug 3, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Aug 3, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Aug 3, 26 Bernstein MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 17, 26 Bernstein MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 10, 26 Evercore ISI Group MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jun 24, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
May 5, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
May 4, 26 JP Morgan MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$6.40 / yr
Forward yield1.33%
5-year avg yield1.29%
Payout ratio40.03%
Ex-dividend dateSep 3, 2026
Next pay dateSep 17, 2026
Last split2:1
Split dateDec 16, 2003

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