Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 16.150-16.550 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 16.820. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Linde also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 3.850-3.950 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on LIN. Erste Group Bank reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Linde in a report on Tuesday, November 19th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their target price on Linde from $510.00 to $515.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. BMO Capital Markets raised their price target on shares of Linde from $477.00 to $507.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. TD Cowen upgraded shares of Linde from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their price objective for the company from $480.00 to $515.00 in a research note on Monday, January 13th. Finally, Mizuho boosted their price target on shares of Linde from $520.00 to $530.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 1st. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $501.82.

Linde Stock Down 1.2 %

NASDAQ LIN traded down $5.37 during trading on Friday, hitting $455.31. 871,640 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,342,444. Linde has a 12 month low of $410.69 and a 12 month high of $487.49. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $434.48 and a 200 day simple moving average of $453.49. The company has a market capitalization of $216.80 billion, a P/E ratio of 34.54, a PEG ratio of 2.77 and a beta of 0.94. The company has a current ratio of 0.96, a quick ratio of 0.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43.

Linde (NASDAQ:LIN) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 6th. The basic materials company reported $3.97 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.93 by $0.04. Linde had a return on equity of 18.16% and a net margin of 19.33%. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Linde will post 15.45 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, VP Guillermo Bichara sold 4,385 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, December 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $460.73, for a total transaction of $2,020,301.05. Following the transaction, the vice president now owns 22,776 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $10,493,586.48. The trade was a 16.14 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, VP David P. Strauss sold 2,218 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, December 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $434.35, for a total transaction of $963,388.30. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now directly owns 25,926 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $11,260,958.10. This trade represents a 7.88 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 0.60% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Linde Company Profile

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.