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 $481.70 with a market capitalization of $222.83B. 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 12.1% 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 average, 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, revenue has compounded at 4.5% a year over the last five years, profit at 22.5% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

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 (less volatile than the overall market).