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Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN) is a leading specialty chemicals business with stocks listed in the US. It closed the previous market day at US$440.53. During the previous open market day, the price has varied from a low of USD440.16 to a high of USD445.65. Linde plc Ordinary Shares is listed on the NASDAQ. All prices are listed in US Dollars.
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Linde plc Ordinary Shares's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 15 December 2003. So if you had owned 1 share the day before the split, the next day you would own 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Linde plc Ordinary Shares shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Linde plc Ordinary Shares shares which in turn could have impacted Linde plc Ordinary Shares's share price.
52-week range | US$391.2974 - US$486.016 |
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50-day moving average | US$463.902 |
200-day moving average | US$453.8817 |
Target price | US$493.7328 |
PE ratio | 33.4495 |
Dividend yield | US$5.44 (1.26%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | US$13.17 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $440.53
1 week (2024-12-05) | -1.79% |
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1 month (2024-11-12) | -3.31% |
3 months (2024-09-12) | -5.74% |
6 months (2024-06-12) | 1.46% |
1 year (2023-12-12) | 3.24% |
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2 years (2022-12-12) | 31.09% |
3 years (2021-12-10) | 31.90% |
5 years (2019-12-12) | 109.86% |
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Valuing Linde plc Ordinary Shares stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Linde plc Ordinary Shares's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Linde plc Ordinary Shares's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 33x. In other words, Linde plc Ordinary Shares shares trade at around 33x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Linde plc Ordinary Shares's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.468. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Linde plc Ordinary Shares's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Linde plc Ordinary Shares's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is US$12.6 billion (£9.9 billion).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Linde plc Ordinary Shares's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure stock profitability.
Over the last 12 months, Linde plc Ordinary Shares's shares have ranged in value from as little as US$391.2974 up to US$486.016. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta measures a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Linde plc Ordinary Shares's is 0.949. This would suggest that Linde plc Ordinary Shares's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Revenue TTM | US$33 billion |
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Operating margin TTM | 27.19% |
Gross profit TTM | US$13.9 billion |
Return on assets TTM | 6.83% |
Return on equity TTM | 16.19% |
Profit margin | 19.33% |
Book value | 82.269 |
Market capitalisation | US$209.8 billion |
EBITDA | US$12.6 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 36.75% of net profits
Recently Linde plc Ordinary Shares has paid out, on average, around 36.75% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 1.26% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Linde plc Ordinary Shares shareholders could enjoy a 1.26% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Linde plc Ordinary Shares's case, that would currently equate to about $5.44 per share.
While Linde plc Ordinary Shares's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Linde plc Ordinary Shares may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Linde plc Ordinary Shares's most recent dividend payout was on 16 December 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 2 December 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Linde plc operates as an industrial gas company in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South Pacific. It offers atmospheric gases, including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases; and process gases, such as carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases, and acetylene. The company also designs and constructs turnkey process plants for third-party customers, as well as for the gas businesses in various locations, such as air separation, hydrogen, synthesis, olefin, and natural gas plants. It serves a range of industries, including healthcare, chemicals and energy, manufacturing, metals and mining, food and beverage, and electronics. The company was founded in 1879 and is based in Woking, the United Kingdom.
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