Linde PLC

LIN Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

Linde PLC’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $34.0 billion, up 2.97% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 9.35%, EPS grew 11.2%, free cash flow fell 12.7% and total debt rose 8.07%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years, operating cash flow growth for three; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

498.43 5.21 +1.06%
Market cap
$227.4B
P/E
32.0×
Fwd P/E
30.9×
Dividend yield
1.26%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
3.52
Beneish M
−2.63
Dividend safety
77/100

Linde PLC (LIN) Debt to equity

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Linde PLC's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 June 2026 was 0.7×, up 0.0× from fiscal 2025 (0.7×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.3× (fiscal 2018) to 1.9× (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 0.5× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 0.7× 24.01%
FY2024 0.5× 16.16%
FY2023 0.5× 8.91%
FY2022 0.4× 38.47%
FY2021 0.3× (4.05%)
FY2020 0.3× 20.30%
FY2019 0.3× 1.08%
FY2018 0.3× (80.61%)
FY2017 1.4× (20.96%)
FY2016 1.7× (9.20%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Jun 2026 0.7× 5.04%
Mar 2026 0.7× (3.34%)
Dec 2025 0.7× 5.01%
Sep 2025 0.6× (0.23%)
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.3× High 1.9×
Ten-year median 0.5×
Current reading's percentile 73

Debt to equity against peers

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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