Linde
$469.45Change from previous close: −1.10%Absolute change: −$5.20
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $216.41B
- Enterprise value
- $241.07B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 30.3
- Forward P/E
- 24.0
- PEG
- 1.84
- Price/book
- 5.54
- Price/sales
- 6.10
- EV/EBITDA
- 17.4
- EV/revenue
- 6.80
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 48.3%
- Operating margin
- 28.1%
- Net margin
- 20.4%
- ROE
- 18.4%
- ROA
- 7.2%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 9.3%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 11.3%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $4.9B
- Total debt
- $28.01B
- Debt/equity
- 0.69
- Current ratio
- 0.88
- Quick ratio
- 0.68
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $6.40
- Dividend yield
- 1.4%
- Payout ratio
- 40.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 3, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $542.60
- Median price target
- $550.00
- High price target
- $580.00
- Low price target
- $400.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 25
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $19.56
- EPS estimate, current year
- $17.88
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.73
- Average volume
- 2.05M
- Shares outstanding
- 460.98M
- Float
- 459.41M
- Institutional ownership
- 88.6%
- Insider ownership
- 0.2%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 1.3%
- Short ratio (days)
- 3.05