Linde Shares Decline Despite Strong Earnings — Here's Why We’re Keeping Our Rating
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Oct 31 2025
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Should l Buy LIN?
Source: CNBC
Earnings Performance: Linde's third-quarter revenue rose 3% to $8.62 billion, surpassing estimates, while adjusted earnings per share increased nearly 7% to $4.21, also exceeding expectations. However, cash flow fell short of consensus, leading to a 2% drop in shares.
Guidance and Outlook: The company provided cautious fourth-quarter guidance for adjusted EPS between $4.10 and $4.20, below analyst estimates, and tightened its full-year earnings forecast to $16.35 to $16.45 per share, indicating 5% to 6% annual growth.
Market Position and Backlog: Linde maintains a strong market position with a diverse customer base across various industries, and it reported a record-high project backlog of $10 billion, which is expected to support future earnings growth.
Regional Sales Performance: Sales increased across various segments, with notable growth in the Americas (6% year-over-year) and stable performance in Asia Pacific and Europe, although engineering sales fell 15% year-over-year.
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Analyst Views on LIN
Wall Street analysts forecast LIN stock price to rise
17 Analyst Rating
15 Buy
2 Hold
0 Sell
Strong Buy
Current: 467.510
Low
455.00
Averages
499.07
High
540.00
Current: 467.510
Low
455.00
Averages
499.07
High
540.00
About LIN
Linde plc is a United Kingdom-based industrial gases and engineering company. The Company serves a variety of end markets, such as chemicals and energy, food and beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals, and mining. The Company’s industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, including production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life-saving medical oxygen and high-purity and specialty gases for electronics. It also delivers gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. Its primary products in its industrial gases business are atmospheric gases and process gases. The Company also designs and builds equipment that produces industrial gases and offers customers a range of gas production and processing services, such as olefin plants, natural gas plants, air separation plants, hydrogen and synthesis gas plants and other types of plants.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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