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Linde PLC

Linde PLC’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $34.0 billion, up 2.97% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue: +9.16%
EPS: −8.09%
Free cash flow: +6.28%
Total debt: +3.00%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

520.20 4.54 −0.87%

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Market cap: $239.3B
P/E: 34.2×
Fwd P/E: 31.6×
Dividend yield: 1.21%
F-score: 6/9
Altman Z: 3.52
Beneish M: −2.63
Dividend safety: 77/100

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Linde PLC (LIN) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $520.20 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 18.8% a year for ten years.

Free cash flow after share-based pay grew 16.7% a year over the last ten years, −1.8% over the last five. The price asks for close to its ten-year rate. The industry’s median company is priced for 8.8%.

In December 2017 the price assumed 13.1% a year; Linde PLC went on to grow free cash flow after share-based pay 14.5% a year to FY2025.

Price implies: 18.8%
Last 5 years, reported: −1.8%
Last 10 years, reported: 16.7%
Industry median implies: 8.8%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ free cash flow after share-based pay at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF

The price needs: 18.8% a year for ten years; $520.20; today’s price
Its base case: 16.7% a year for five years, then 10.0%; $340.32; 34.6% below today’s price

Both are growth in free cash flow after share-based pay, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record Linde PLC’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

1 · Cash flow to equity

Free cash flow (TTM, $ billions)the four quarters to September 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings, before share-based pay

Subtract share-based pay ($0.14 billion)

Growth, yrs 1–5 (%)

Growth, yrs 6–10 (%)

Yearly growth in cash flow. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 18.8% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity (%)

Terminal growth (%)

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

Shares (billions)

Current price ($)

Diluted shares outstanding. Net debt, under Advanced inputs, is taken off before dividing.

Advanced inputs

Free cash flow Revenue and margin

Value per share Expected return

Use the analysts’ consensus for years 1–3 (8.1%, 20.6%, 9.9%)

How the model ends

Net debt ($ billions)negative is net cash

Dilution a year (%)new shares the cash flow does not pay for

Margin of safety (%)

Against Linde PLC’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 0.68 × equity premium 4.5% = 7.4% cost of equity; weighted, 7.4%.

Use 7.4%

Equity value $158.72b ▼ below market cap $242.61b

Base case value per share $340.32 equity value ÷ 466.39m shares

Current price $520.20 market price per share

Below today’s price 34.6% downside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$66.33b 10 years of cash to equity+$115.14b terminal value−$22.76b net debt=$158.72b equity value÷466.39m shares=$340.32 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Specialty Chemicals).

Multiple	Current	5Y avg	10Y avg	vs 10Y avg	Industry median	vs industry
P/E	34.16×	32.87×	36.49×	6% below	24.46×	40% above
P/FCF	47.17×	38.28×	35.50×	33% above	19.15×	146% above
P/B	5.85×	4.94×	4.14×	41% above	1.88×	210% above
EV/EBITDA	20.20×	18.25×	16.97×	19% above	12.87×	57% above
EV/Sales	7.24×	6.41×	5.71×	27% above	1.88×	285% above

P/E P/FCF P/B EV/EBITDA EV/Sales

LIN trades at 20.20× EV/EBITDA, against a 10-year average of 16.97× (range 8.38×–20.20×). That is dearer than 100% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $429.25 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.