Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for LIN in the last 90 days.
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NASDAQ: LIN
Linde (LIN) Stock Analysis & Forecast
$460.40+1.92 (+0.4%)
Close on Sep 18, 2026. Page updated Sep 19, 9:16 pm ET.
Gekko Brief
AI summaryLinde trades at $460.40, up 0.4%, with the close sitting between its 50-day average of $489.70 and 200-day average of $482.88. The GekkoIndex reads 72.2, placing the stock in the Buying zone, and price sits 9.1% below Gekko Fair Value of $506.73. Over the past month the stock is down 4.3%, and it is off 10.1% over three months and 4.1% over the past year.
This week's coverage centered on analyst activity. Bernstein SocGen lowered its price target to $563 from $564 while maintaining an Outperform rating, following a project analysis suggesting low-single-digit annual EPS growth through 2030 and a 2030 EPS estimate 8% above consensus. KeyBanc initiated coverage with an overweight rating and a $542.00 price target, citing quality, dividend track record, and tailwinds from industrial demand and electronics and semiconductor investment.
Linde's next earnings date falls on 30 October 2026, 40 days out and beyond a typical 20-day holding window; the prior report on 31 July showed EPS of $4.50 against a $4.49 estimate, followed by a 5.5% reaction, with an average absolute move of 2.8% across the last eight quarters, all beats. Congress recorded 1 buy and 0 sells in the last 90 days. Seasonality over the next 20 trading days has averaged -0.8% across 5 years, rising in 2 of them. Analyst consensus stands at 12 buy, 2 hold, 0 sell ratings across 14 firms, with a consensus target of $544.40.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 20, 2026 from the data above.
Price vs fair value
Close $460.40200-day averageGekko Fair Value $506.73
Key stats
- Market cap
- $213.0B
- P/E ratio
- 29.9
- Forward P/E
- 23.4
- EPS, TTM
- $15.36
- Revenue, TTM
- $35.45B
- Profit margin
- 20.4%
- Dividend yield
- 1.34%
- Beta
- 0.73
- Volume
- 4.39M avg 1.88M
- 1-year return
- −4.1%
- Typical daily move
- ±1.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.3%
- 50-day average
- $489.70
- 200-day average
- $482.88
- Next earnings
- Oct 30 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 461.0M
Linde swing-trade checklist
Linde scores 4 supportive, 1 mixed and 1 headwind across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
4 supportive1 mixed1 headwind
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $460.40 sits between the 50-day ($489.70) and 200-day ($482.88) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
72.2, Buying
Reading 72.2 is in the Buying zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
9.1% below
Price is 9.1% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneysupportive
Leans bullish
Last 90 days: Congress 1 buy / 0 sales.
See smart money - Earnings risksupportive
Reports in 40 days
Next report Oct 30, 2026, 40 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalityheadwind
−0.8% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −0.8% over 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
See seasonality
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Linde stock chart and price history
Linde closed at $460.40 on Sep 18, 2026, −4.1% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $387.78 to $548.20.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −4.3%
- 3 months
- −10.1%
- 6 months
- −6.0%
- 1 year
- −4.1%
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About Linde
Linde produces and delivers industrial gases to businesses across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. It offers gases drawn from the atmosphere, including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases, as well as manufactured gases like carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, acetylene, and gases used in electronics. The company pairs this gas supply role with the ability to plan and erect complete processing facilities for clients.
Its engineering work includes building plants for olefins, natural gas, hydrogen, synthesis gas, and air separation, meeting needs both for outside firms and for its own gas production sites. Linde serves organizations in healthcare, energy, general manufacturing, food and drink carbonation, fiber-optic production, steelmaking, aerospace, chemicals, and water treatment.
Linde dates back to 1879 and runs its headquarters out of Woking in the United Kingdom. The company's stock trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker LIN.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: specialty
- Website
- linde.com
Linde GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Linde’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 72.2, in the Buying zone, up 2.3 points over five sessions.
72.2Buying
Up 2.3 points over five sessions, from the Accumulation zone.
Reading for Sep 18, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying (current zone) | 29 | +1.6% | +1.7% | ||
| Accumulation | 178 | −0.4% | −0.4% | ||
| Neutral | 409 | +0.2% | +0.7% | ||
| Distribution | 42 | +0.9% | +2.7% | ||
| Selling | 4 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average LIN share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Buying readings averaged +3.2% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Buying zone: Smart money likely accumulating heavily. About the five zones →
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Is Linde stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Linde trades 9.1% below Gekko Fair Value of $506.73, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Linde shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$506.73
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 19, 2026
9.1% Undervalued
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Linde insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Linde, and members of Congress disclosed 1 purchase and 0 sales, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
1trade disclosed: 1 purchase and 0 sales.
| Member | Amount | Disclosed |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas H. Kean House, NJ, purchase | $1,001 - $15,000 | Sep 14 traded Aug 10 |
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Buybacks
Linde has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $871.0M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.41%
- Trailing four quarters
- $4.06B
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
7of the funds Gekko tracks hold LIN.
2added2opened3trimmed1sold out
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Linde earnings: next date and track record
Linde reports on Oct 30, 2026, before the open (40 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 30, 2026
Expected before the open, 40 days away
- EPS estimate
- $4.52
- Revenue estimate
- $9.16B
8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±2.8%average move across the report
3 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 31, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Linde reported record Q2 2026 sales of $9.3 billion (up 9% YoY) and record EPS, both growing at near double-digit rates. Backlog reached a record $8.1 billion after adding $1 billion in new electronics wins. Electronics is the fastest-growing end market driven by AI hardware demand. Operating margins (ex-cost pass-through) declined ~30 bps YoY, primarily due to U.S. homecare business headwinds from cost inflation and policy changes.
- Guidance
- Management expects to start up 20+ projects representing ~$1.3 billion in investments in H2 2026. Sale-of-gas backlog expected to finish the year with an '8 handle.' Sequential margin improvement anticipated in Q3, with strategic review of U.S. homecare business underway.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2026 | $4.50 est $4.49 | $9.29B est $9.02B | −5.5% |
| May 1, 2026 | $4.33 est $4.27 | $8.78B est $8.60B | −1.5% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | $4.20 est $4.18 | $8.76B est $8.64B | −5.3% |
| Oct 31, 2025 | $4.21 est $4.18 | $8.62B est $8.62B | −4.1% |
| Aug 1, 2025 | $4.09 est $4.03 | $8.50B est $8.36B | +1.6% |
| May 1, 2025 | $3.95 est $3.92 | $8.11B est $8.24B | +0.4% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | $3.97 est $3.94 | $8.28B est $8.42B | +0.3% |
| Oct 31, 2024 | $3.94 est $3.89 | $8.36B est $8.39B | −3.4% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Linde stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Linde is $544.40, +18.2% from the last close, from 14 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$544.40consensus 12-month target, +18.2% from the last close
Now $460.40Avg $544.40
Low $525High $612
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 14 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11 | KeyBanc | $542 | +17.7% |
| Sep 11 | Bernstein | $563 | +22.3% |
| Sep 10 | KeyBanc | $542 | +17.7% |
| Sep 9 | BMO Capital | $546 | +18.6% |
| Sep 4 | Deutsche Bank | $575 | +24.9% |
+1.7%average 20-day move after past Buying readings
−0.8%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±1.6%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Linde seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 19, Linde averaged −0.8% across the last 5 years, rising in 2 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −1.7% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −2.2% | 1 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −2.9% | 1 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | −0.8% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −0.4% | 3 of 5 |
For scale, LIN’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 3.3%.
Linde market cap and key statistics
Linde’s market cap is $213.0B, with a P/E ratio of 29.9 and revenue of $35.45B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $213.0B
- P/E ratio
- 29.9
- Forward P/E
- 23.4
- EPS, TTM
- $15.36
- Gekko Fair Value
- $506.73
Trading
- Volume
- 4.39M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 1.88M
- 52-week high
- $548.20
- 52-week low
- $387.78
- Shares outstanding
- 461.0M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $35.45B
- Profit margin
- 20.4%
- Return on equity
- 18.4%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +11.3%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 0.73
- Typical daily move
- ±1.6%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±3.3%
- Dividend yield
- 1.34%
Linde stock news this week
Coverage of Linde this week reads positive: 3 positive, 1 neutral and 0 negative headlines.
- Bernstein SocGen cuts Linde stock price target on project analysisInvesting.com, Sep 11
- Bernstein SocGen cuts Linde stock price target on project analysis By Investing.comInvesting.com UK, Sep 11
- KeyBanc initiates Linde stock coverage with overweight ratingInvesting.com, Sep 11
- KeyBanc initiates Linde stock coverage with overweight rating By Investing.comInvesting.com India, Sep 11
Linde peers
Linde’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| ECLEcolab | Accumulation | 2.4% above |
| APDAir Products and Chemicals | Buying | 10.5% below |
| DOWDow | Accumulation | 34.5% below |
| LYBLyondellBasell Industries | Accumulation | 9.8% below |
| ALBAlbemarle | Accumulation | 23.0% below |
| WLKWestlake | Accumulation | 24.8% below |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Linde stock FAQ
What is Linde’s market cap?
Linde’s market cap is $213.0B at the Sep 18, 2026 close of $460.40, with 461.0M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 29.9.
What is the Linde stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Linde is $544.40, +18.2% from the last close. Of the 14 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 12 rate it a buy, 2 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Linde stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Linde is undervalued: the Sep 18, 2026 close of $460.40 is 9.1% below Gekko Fair Value of $506.73. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Linde report earnings next?
Linde is expected to report on Oct 30, 2026, before the market opens (40 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $4.52 per share on revenue of $9.16B. Linde beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 2.8% on average across the report.
What is Linde’s 52-week high and low?
Linde’s 52-week high is $548.20 and its 52-week low is $387.78; it closed at $460.40 on Sep 18, 2026, −4.1% over the past year.
Is Linde stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, smart money and earnings risk), 1 as mixed (trend) and 1 as a headwind (seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
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