CoverageForm 410-K10-Q8-K13D13G13F

LIN · Linde PLC - Financials

Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.

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Income Statement

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Revenue$33.99B$33.01B$32.85B$33.36B$30.79B$27.24B
Cost of Revenue------
Gross Profit------
R&D$147.00M$150.00M$146.00M$143.00M$143.00M$152.00M
SG&A$3.43B$3.34B$3.29B$3.11B$3.19B$3.19B
Total Operating Expenses------
D&A$3.76B$3.78B$3.82B$4.20B$4.63B$4.63B
Operating Income$8.92B$8.63B$8.02B$5.37B$4.98B$3.32B
Interest Expense$575.00M$555.00M$480.00M$277.00M$227.00M$277.00M
Income Tax$1.99B$2.00B$1.81B$1.43B$1.26B$847.00M
Net Income$6.90B$6.57B$6.20B$4.15B$3.83B$2.50B
EPS - Basic$14.69$13.71$12.70$8.30$7.40$4.75
EPS - Diluted$14.61$13.62$12.59$8.23$7.33$4.71

Balance Sheet

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Cash & Equivalents$5.06B$4.85B$4.66B$5.44B$2.82B$3.75B
Accounts Receivable$4.97B$4.62B$4.72B$4.56B$4.50B$4.17B
Inventory$2.06B$1.95B$2.12B$1.98B$1.73B$1.73B
Accounts Payable$2.81B$2.51B$3.02B$3.00B$3.50B$3.10B
Current Assets$13.32B$12.95B$12.62B$13.05B$10.16B$10.92B
Total Assets$86.82B$80.15B$80.81B$79.66B$81.61B$88.23B
Current Liabilities$15.20B$14.54B$15.72B$16.48B$13.64B$13.74B
Long-term Debt$20.68B$15.34B$13.40B$12.20B$11.34B$12.15B
Total Liabilities$47.08B$40.66B$39.72B$38.27B$36.16B$38.65B
Stockholders' Equity$38.24B$38.09B$39.72B$40.03B$44.03B$47.32B
Retained Earnings$16.61B$12.63B$8.85B$20.54B$18.71B$17.18B

Cash Flow

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Operating Cash Flow$10.35B$9.42B$9.30B$7.43B$9.72B$7.43B
Investing Cash Flow($5.72B)($4.64B)($4.67B)($2.99B)($3.01B)($2.99B)
Financing Cash Flow($4.55B)($4.36B)($5.40B)($3.35B)($7.59B)($3.35B)
CapEx$5.26B$4.50B$3.79B$3.17B$3.09B$3.40B
Free Cash Flow$5.09B$4.93B$5.52B$4.26B$6.64B$4.03B

Ratios

MetricFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Profitability
Gross margin------
Operating margin26.3%26.2%24.4%16.1%16.2%12.2%
EBITDA margin37.3%37.6%36.0%28.7%31.2%29.2%
Net margin20.3%19.9%18.9%12.4%12.4%9.2%
Free cash flow margin15.0%14.9%16.8%12.8%21.6%14.8%
FCF / Net income0.740.750.891.031.741.61
R&D / Revenue0.4%0.5%0.4%0.4%0.5%0.6%
SG&A / Revenue10.1%10.1%10.0%9.3%10.4%11.7%
Effective tax rate22.4%23.4%22.6%25.7%24.8%25.3%
Return on assets7.9%8.2%7.7%5.2%4.7%2.8%
Return on equity18.0%17.2%15.6%10.4%8.7%5.3%
Return on invested capital11.8%12.4%11.7%7.6%6.8%4.2%
Liquidity
Current ratio0.880.890.800.790.740.80
Quick ratio0.740.760.670.670.620.67
Cash ratio0.330.330.300.330.210.27
Leverage
Debt / Equity0.540.400.340.300.260.26
Debt / Assets0.240.190.170.150.140.14
Debt / EBITDA1.631.241.131.271.181.53
Interest coverage15.5x15.6x16.7x19.4x22.0x12.0x
Equity multiplier2.272.102.031.991.851.86
Liabilities / Assets0.540.510.490.480.440.44
Efficiency
Asset turnover0.390.410.410.420.380.31
Inventory turnover------
Days sales outstanding53d51d52d50d53d56d
Days inventory outstanding------
Days payable outstanding------
Cash conversion cycle------
Valuation
P / E29.2x30.7x32.6x39.6x47.3x55.9x
P / B5.3x5.3x5.1x4.1x4.1x3.0x
P / S5.9x6.1x6.2x4.9x5.9x5.1x
EV / EBITDA17.1x17.1x17.8x17.9x19.7x18.7x
Growth
Revenue growth (YoY)3.0%0.5%-1.5%8.3%13.0%-3.5%
Revenue CAGR (3y)0.6%2.3%6.4%5.7%43.0%-
Revenue CAGR (5y)4.5%3.2%25.5%---
Gross profit growth (YoY)------
Operating income growth (YoY)3.3%7.6%49.5%7.7%50.0%13.3%
Net income growth (YoY)5.1%5.9%49.5%8.4%53.0%9.5%
EPS growth (YoY)7.3%8.2%53.0%12.3%55.6%12.4%
EPS CAGR (3y)21.1%22.9%38.8%25.2%12.1%-
EPS CAGR (5y)25.4%26.6%19.3%---
FCF growth (YoY)3.3%-10.7%29.7%-35.9%64.8%65.3%
FCF CAGR (5y)4.8%15.1%33.0%---
Book value growth (YoY)0.4%-4.1%-0.8%-9.1%-6.9%-3.6%

Sales by segment

From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-12-31.

Business segments

$33.99B total
Americas Segment$15.21B · 44.7%
EMEASegment$8.55B · 25.2%
APACSegment$6.66B · 19.6%
Engineering Segment$2.25B · 6.6%
Corporate And Other$1.32B · 3.9%

Geographic

$33.99B total
US$12.18B · 35.8%
Other International$11.26B · 33.1%
CN$2.60B · 7.7%
DE$2.43B · 7.2%
GB$1.51B · 4.4%
MX$1.39B · 4.1%
BR$1.32B · 3.9%
AU$1.29B · 3.8%

Stability scores

Altman Z′

FY 2025 · bankruptcy risk

1.20
Distress

Private-firm variant - uses book equity instead of market cap. > 2.90 safe · 1.23-2.90 grey · < 1.23 distress.

Piotroski F-score

FY 2025 · 9-point quality

4/9
Neutral
  • Net income positive
  • Operating cash flow positive
  • ROA improved YoY
  • Cash flow > net income
  • Long-term debt decreased
  • Current ratio improved
  • No share dilution
  • -Gross margin improved
  • Asset turnover improved

Peer comparison

Same SIC group: Industrial Inorganic Chemicals

CompanyRevenue (last FY)Net marginROE
MTX$2.07B-0.9%-1.1%
APD$12.04B-3.3%-2.6%
LTBR$0--9.6%
LXFR$384.60M2.0%3.4%
LXU$615.21M4.0%4.7%

Comparing LINDE PLC against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.

Dividends

$4.60/share trailing 12 months · -20.4% YoY

Ex-datePer share
Mar 11, 2026$1.6000
Dec 3, 2025$1.5000
Sep 4, 2025$1.5000
Jun 4, 2025$1.5000
Mar 13, 2025$1.5000
Dec 3, 2024$1.3900
Sep 4, 2024$1.3900
Jun 4, 2024$1.3900
Mar 13, 2024$1.3900
Dec 1, 2023$1.2750
Sep 1, 2023$1.2750
Jun 1, 2023$1.2750
Mar 13, 2023$1.2750
Dec 1, 2022$1.1700
Sep 1, 2022$1.1700
Jun 2, 2022$1.1700
Mar 10, 2022$1.1700
Dec 2, 2021$1.0600
Sep 2, 2021$1.0600
Jun 2, 2021$1.0600
Mar 4, 2021$1.0600
Dec 2, 2020$0.9630
Sep 2, 2020$0.9630
Jun 2, 2020$0.9630