Linde plc (LIN) Stock

About Linde plc

Linde plc is led by CEO Sanjiv Lamba, employs 65,069 people, headquartered in Woking, GB, publicly traded since 1992.

Linde plc (LIN) stock trades at $498.43 with a market capitalization of $229.77B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 30.20, price-to-book of 5.56, price-to-sales of 6.13. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $387.78 and $548.20, and currently trades 9.1% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.36%.

On profitability, Linde plc generates a return on equity (ROE) of 18.75%, above the typical market range of roughly 12-15%, return on capital employed of 13.30%, an operating margin of 26.29%, a net profit margin of 20.43%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Linde plc reported annual revenue of $34.0B, net profit of $6.9B. Over the last 5 fiscal years, revenue grew at an average annual rate of 4.5%, and net profit grew at an average annual rate of 22.5%. Over that span net profit grew faster than revenue, so net margin widened.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 0.88, total assets of $86.8B, $5.1B in cash and equivalents.

LIN has a beta of 0.73 (historically less volatile than the overall market).