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Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on LIN

What this diary said about Linde plc Ordinary Shares, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we hold

BookPositionSinceResult
Global Tech 50 25.06 shares · average entry $374.95 — +30.6%
AI Cycle 2030 (wikifolio) ↗ 6 shares · average entry €404.07 — —

Model books as of 6 Oct 2026; wikifolio positions from the official wikifolio data, entries in euros. Results are unrealised, before any exit. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for LIN, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 · HALO Growth 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-10-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
LIN+1.6%+3.5%+2.6%−7.1%
Gases, Chemicals & Consumables+0.8%+4.1%+1.9%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+0.8%+7.0%+11.0%—

Against the index: 3.5 pts behind on the week, 8.4 pts behind on the month; against its Gases, Chemicals & Consumables sleeve 0.7 pts ahead on the month.

HALO Growth 100 · as of 2026-10-06

DayWeekMonth3 months
LIN+3.5%+3.5%+2.6%−7.1%
Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials+0.3%−0.4%−4.3%—
HALO Growth 100+0.5%+0.7%−4.9%—

Against the index: 2.8 pts ahead on the week, 7.5 pts ahead on the month; against its Grid, Industrial & Specialty Materials sleeve 6.9 pts ahead on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.96 · up 0.53 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-05
How it trades on rate days beta 0.17 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How LIN has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.17 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Linde plc Ordinary Shares moved 0.17% on average · correlation 0.08 · higher than 18% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.03 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.13% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.34% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Rubin Build-Out 100 · Gases, Chemicals & Consumables · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Rubin Build-Out 100 · Gases, Chemicals & Consumables

Specialty gases, slurries, photochemicals. Recurring-revenue consumables that scale with wafer-starts, not capex.

Compared against LIN on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Linde plc Ordinary Shares

LIN in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Linde produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon and rare gases, plus process gases including hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide and electronic gases. It also designs and builds process plants, including air-separation and hydrogen units, for its own operations and for other customers. Its output serves healthcare, chemicals and energy, manufacturing, metals and mining, food and beverage, and electronics industries across many countries. The company is based in Woking, United Kingdom, and traces back to 1879.
Where it sits in the stack
In our index, the Rubin Build-Out 100, Linde sits in Layer 6, Manufacturing Support, within the Gases, Chemicals & Consumables sleeve. That sleeve covers specialty gases, slurries and photochemicals whose revenue tracks wafer-starts rather than capital spending, so Linde is a supplier the chip fabs draw on continuously as output rises, not a one-off equipment purchase.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with Air Liquide, Qnity Electronics and Ajinomoto, all grouped for the same reason: Rubin Build-Out 100, Gases, Chemicals & Consumables. Air Products is the additional competitor the wider market often names alongside these.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Linde is a Rubin constituent, sits in the Nasdaq-100 and appears in our HALO Growth 100, the growth index we run outside the megacaps. It carries a Closelooknet score, with capital allocation reading strongest and valuation weakest among its modules.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether electronics-grade gas demand keeps pace with wafer-start growth, since that link is what ties this consumables sleeve to the pace of the wider build-out.

Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN) trades on US exchanges in US/Germany, classified under Basic Materials, and sits in Layer 6 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100 and HALO Growth 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 48/100 composite (momentum 42, quality 64, valuation 33) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: LIN news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 4 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by UBS, 2026-10-05

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for LIN from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target UBS — target 574 from 612 Target cut to $574 from $612 (+19.7% to spot) 2026-10-05
  • Price target Argus — target 538 from 563 Target cut to $538 from $563 (+14% to spot) 2026-09-28
  • Price target Bernstein SocGen Group — target 563 Target set to $563 (+21.4% to spot) 2026-09-11

4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 3 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 1.29%, quarterly · buybacks 4.60 bn USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What LIN pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 6.30 USD per share · a 1.29% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +7.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 5.89 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.60 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-03
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.28 USD (partial) · 2024: 5.56 USD · 2025: 6.00 USD · 2026: 4.80 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-01
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 2.81 bn USD 37% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 4.60 bn USD 2.1% of today's market value
  • Share count −2.8% in FY2025 133 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 7.41 bn USD · 146% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN)?

Linde plc Ordinary Shares trades as LIN on the US exchange (US/Germany) and is classified under Basic Materials in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is LIN in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Linde plc Ordinary Shares is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100 and HALO Growth 100, as of 2026-10-07.

What is Linde plc Ordinary Shares's Closelooknet composite score?

48 out of 100, with momentum 42, quality 64 and valuation 33 sub-scores, as of 2026-10-07. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does LIN trade against its moving averages?

Death cross: Its 50-day crossed below its 200-day 7 sessions ago — a death cross, the classic trend-turn-lower. As of 2026-10-05 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is LIN doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Linde plc Ordinary Shares is +2.6% against +11.0% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 8.4 points behind its index, as of 2026-10-06. Its Gases, Chemicals & Consumables sleeve is +1.9% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Linde plc Ordinary Shares compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Rubin Build-Out 100 · Gases, Chemicals & Consumables), Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN) sits 12.0% below its 52-week high, 0.6% above its 50-day average; Air Liquide SA (AI.PA) is 10.0% below, Qnity Electronics, Inc (Q) is 25.8% below, Ajinomoto (2802.T) is 15.3% below. Put any of them next to LIN in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Linde plc Ordinary Shares trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Linde plc Ordinary Shares had a beta of 0.17 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 18% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.13% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Does Closelooknet hold Linde plc Ordinary Shares?

Yes — Global Tech 50: 25.06 shares · average entry $374.95, +30.6% unrealised; AI Cycle 2030 (wikifolio): 6 shares · average entry €404.07. A record of what the diary does, not a recommendation to do the same.

What does Linde plc Ordinary Shares do?

Linde produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon and rare gases, plus process gases including hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide and electronic gases. It also designs and builds process plants, including air-separation and hydrogen units, for its own operations and for other customers. Its output serves healthcare, chemicals and energy, manufacturing, metals and mining, food and beverage, and electronics industries across many countries. Closelooknet's peer group places it with Air Liquide, Qnity Electronics and Ajinomoto, all grouped for the same reason: Rubin Build-Out 100, Gases, Chemicals & Consumables. Air Products is the additional competitor the wider market often names alongside these.

Where does Linde plc Ordinary Shares sit in the AI build-out?

In our index, the Rubin Build-Out 100, Linde sits in Layer 6, Manufacturing Support, within the Gases, Chemicals & Consumables sleeve. That sleeve covers specialty gases, slurries and photochemicals whose revenue tracks wafer-starts rather than capital spending, so Linde is a supplier the chip fabs draw on continuously as output rises, not a one-off equipment purchase. Linde is a Rubin constituent, sits in the Nasdaq-100 and appears in our HALO Growth 100, the growth index we run outside the megacaps. It carries a Closelooknet score, with capital allocation reading strongest and valuation weakest among its modules.

Does Linde plc Ordinary Shares pay a dividend?

Linde plc Ordinary Shares has paid 6.30 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 1.29% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.60 USD on 2026-09-03. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 2.81 bn USD in dividends and bought back 4.60 bn USD of its own shares, 146% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 2.8% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Linde plc Ordinary Shares recently?

The most recent analyst action on Linde plc Ordinary Shares on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by UBS on 2026-10-05 (target 574 from 612). 4 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 initiation, 3 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for LIN, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Specialty Chemicals. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.