Linde plc Ordinary Shares (LIN) Analyst Ratings & Price Targets

Linde plc Ordinary Shares

LIN · Nasdaq

Analyst Consensus

Buy

21 analysts

$492

Current

$553

Low

$560

Average

$553

High

Average target implies +13.71% versus the current price.

Analyst Ratings Synthesis

The supplied consensus is Buy across 21 analysts, with a mean target of $560; consensus low and high targets were not provided. Separate services show a wide range: Citigroup’s $585 target is the highest cited, while Morgan Stanley’s $420 target is the lowest, although those observations are from different dates and are not directly comparable with the current consensus. Bernstein’s James Hooper maintains Outperform and raised his target to $564 from $559, while RBC Capital maintained its rating but cut Arun Viswanathan’s target to $553 from $576. The evidence therefore shows mixed revision direction rather than a clear current-week trend. The substantive disagreement is whether resilient contracts, pricing, backlog, and electronics demand outweigh weak EMEA demand and regional risks.

Rating Actions

1 firm captured

Firm	Analyst	Rating	Price Target	Upside	Date	Source
RBC Capital	Arun Viswanathan	Unrated Maintained rating; lowered price target	$553from $576	+12.3%	Oct 3, 2023	Open the report this row came from

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Symbol: LIN
Type: Stock
Sector: Basic Materials
Industry: Industrial Inorganic Chemicals
Exchange: Nasdaq

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2025 sales of $34 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet. Linde serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications, enabling space exploration and launch technologies, delivering ultra-high-purity and specialty gases for semiconductor manufacturing, providing life-saving medical oxygen and enabling clean hydrogen production and carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer growth, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

Key Issues

Bullish view

Electronics was identified as a leading source of end-market gains, and Linde added a long-term ultra-high-purity-gas contract with a major semiconductor manufacturer. The Arizona expansion and $8.1 billion backlog provide additional evidence of demand visibility.

Bearish view

The supplied evidence establishes strong electronics activity but does not show that it will offset weakness elsewhere. Linde’s overall outlook still faces industry-specific risks and weak EMEA demand.

Analyst Consensus

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Buy

21 analysts

$492

Current

$553

Low

$560

Average

$553

High

Average target implies +13.71% versus the current price.

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