Linde (LIN) Stock Price, News & Analysis

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Linde in the last twelve months. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" LIN shares.
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12 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Linde's stock. Their LIN share price targets range from $375.00 to $480.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $433.14 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.6% from the stock's current price.
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Linde's stock was trading at $410.71 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, LIN shares have increased by 0.8% and is now trading at $414.00.
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Linde saw a decline in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,520,000 shares, a decline of 9.0% from the December 31st total of 3,870,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,680,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 0.7% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 25th 2024.
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Linde plc (NYSE:LIN) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 6th. The basic materials company reported $3.59 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.49 by $0.10. The basic materials company earned $8.30 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $8.04 billion. Linde had a net margin of 18.87% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 17.06%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 5.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company posted $3.16 EPS.
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Linde declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, October 23rd. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 4th will be paid a dividend of $1.275 per share on Monday, December 18th. This represents a $5.10 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.23%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 1st.
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Linde (NYSE:LIN) pays an annual dividend of $5.10 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.23%. The dividend payout ratio is 40.48%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, LIN will have a dividend payout ratio of 29.84% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Linde (NYSE:LIN) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETF (IYM), Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLB), Vanguard Materials ETF (VAW), Fidelity MSCI Materials Index ETF (FMAT), ProShares Ultra Materials (UYM), iShares Global Materials ETF (MXI), Martin Currie Sustainable International Equity ETF (MCSE) and Neuberger Berman Carbon Transition & Infrastructure ETF (NBCT).

Linde issued an update on its FY24 earnings guidance on Tuesday, February, 6th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $15.25-15.65 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $15.47.

14 employees have rated Linde Chief Executive Officer Vincent L. Sadusky on Glassdoor.com. Vincent L. Sadusky has an approval rating of 59% among the company's employees. This puts Vincent L. Sadusky in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Linde investors own include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), AbbVie (ABBV), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), AT&T (T), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Walmart (WMT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Pfizer (PFE) and QUALCOMM (QCOM).

Linde's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (2.37%), WCM Investment Management LLC (0.73%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (0.58%), Impax Asset Management Group plc (0.58%), Nordea Investment Management AB (0.50%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.40%). Insiders that own company stock include Andreas Opfermann, David P Strauss, Guillermo Bichara, John Panikar, Kelcey E Hoyt, Sanjiv Lamba, Sean Durbin and Stephen F Angel.
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Shares of LIN stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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