Linde plc (LIN)
LIN · Materials · 
United States
Linde plc (LIN) is a US company in the Materials sector. The stock has its largest weight in XDWM (MSCI World Materials), at 8.13%. Anyone who holds an ETF containing Linde also has an indirect stake in the company.
Data and Charts: Linde
Key Data for Linde
Linde Stock Price Chart
The Linde chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The stock is up 20.6% year to date and up 19.6% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 30, 2026, was $514.24, at 79% of the 52-week range.
Price series from our database since Jul 11, 2024, 580 daily values.
Linde Stock Performance
| Year to date | +20.6% | 1 year | +19.6% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 month | +8.3% | 3 months | +7.5% |
| Calendar year 2025 | +1.8% |
Measured in euros, Linde is up 26.8% year to date and up 23.7% over twelve months. The difference from the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone. Each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for that day.
Alysly Data Analysis: Linde
What ETF Is Linde In?
Linde has very high ETF coverage and is held by 24 of the 104 ETFs we track, which together follow 12 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 90.2% of the 4,341 stocks we track.
| ETF | Index | Weight | per €1,000 in the ETF |
|---|---|---|---|
| XDWM | MSCI World Materials | 8.13% | €81.30 |
| WMAT | MSCI World Materials | 8.13% | €81.28 |
| XNAS / XNA1 | Nasdaq 100 | 1.00% | €10.04 |
| EXXT | Nasdaq 100 | 1.00% | €10.00 |
| XDEQ | MSCI World Quality | 0.57% | €5.73 |
| SPYD | S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats | 0.51% | €5.12 |
| SXR8 | S&P 500 | 0.35% | €3.50 |
| XD9U / XD9D | MSCI USA | 0.35% | €3.49 |
| SPYL / SPY5 | S&P 500 | 0.35% | €3.48 |
| EUNL | MSCI World | 0.26% | €2.60 |
| SWWD | MSCI World | 0.26% | €2.56 |
| SPPW | MSCI World | 0.26% | €2.56 |
| XDWD / XDWL | MSCI World | 0.26% | €2.56 |
| IUSQ | MSCI ACWI | 0.23% | €2.30 |
| WIMI | MSCI World IMI | 0.23% | €2.28 |
| SPYY | MSCI ACWI | 0.23% | €2.27 |
| XDEW | S&P 500 Equal Weight | 0.21% | €2.09 |
| SPYI / SPSA | MSCI ACWI IMI | 0.18% | €1.76 |
| XDEB | MSCI World Minimum Volatility | 0.11% | €1.06 |
The last column shows how much of €1,000 in one of these funds goes to Linde, based on each fund's latest holdings list.
US-listed ETFs holding Linde (weight per latest SEC filing): QQQ 1.04%, QQQM 1.00%, VYM 0.90%, ONEQ 0.49%, IVV 0.37%, SPY 0.37%, VOO 0.37%, VTI 0.33%. These funds are registered in the US; retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy them.
Linde Weight in iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL) Since 2019
In iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL), Linde had a weight of 0.26% on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.26% on Oct 29, 2026. The fund tracks the MSCI World. Its share peaked at 0.34% on Sep 29, 2023. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price performance relative to the other index members. It can also change when the index provider adjusts the index composition.
What's Inside Your ETF Portfolio and the ETF overlap check show how much Linde overlaps with the rest of a portfolio.
Stocks With ETF Exposure Similar to Linde
| Stock | Shared ETFs | r | 1 year | Annualized volatility | Net margin | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linde | – | – | +19.6% | 18.2% | 20.3% | +3.0% |
 PPG Industries | 20 | – | +22.6% | 28.9% | 9.9% | +0.2% |
 Sherwin-Williams Company | 20 | – | -4.4% | 25.9% | 10.9% | +2.1% |
 Air Products and Chemicals | 19 | +0.64 | +29.3% | 25.2% | -3.3% | -0.5% |
 Costco Wholesale Corporation | 22 | – | +10.0% | 20.5% | 3.0% | +10.1% |
 Cintas Corporation | 21 | – | +19.5% | 23.9% | 17.8% | +8.9% |
 Fastenal Company | 21 | – | +24.9% | 24.9% | 15.3% | +8.7% |
 Xcel Energy | 21 | – | -2.2% | 19.7% | – | – |
 AppLovin | 21 | – | -63.2% | 81.6% | 60.8% | +70.0% |
These stocks reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Linde. “Shared ETFs” counts the funds that hold both.
Return and volatility are calculated from our daily closing prices in US dollars. Margin and growth come from each company's latest SEC annual filing. Because fiscal years do not end on the same date for every company, the underlying periods are not fully identical.
Fundamental Analysis: Linde
Linde Key Financials
Figures come from the SEC annual filing for the latest reported fiscal year (period end Dec 31, 2025).
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY ended Dec 2023 | 32.9 | 6.2 | 18.9% |
| FY ended Dec 2024 | 33.0 | 6.6 | 19.9% |
| FY ended Dec 2025 | 34.0 | 6.9 | 20.3% |
Latest Patents Granted to Linde
In the 52 weekly issues of the US patent office from Nov 4, 2025 to Oct 27, 2026, Linde received 28 utility patents and 1 design patents. That is 0.009% of all utility patents the US patent office granted in those weeks. The median time from filing to grant was 4.5 years.
| Granted | Patent | Title | Filed | Technology field |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US 12774419 B2 | Method and system for steamcracking | C10G Chemistry; metallurgy | ||
| US 12753975 B2 | Controllable injection for implementing different local refrigerant distribution | F28D Mechanical engineering; lighting; heating; weapons; blasting | ||
| US 12747912 B2 | Method for configuring a control system for a process plant | F25J Mechanical engineering; lighting; heating; weapons; blasting | ||
| US 12735372 B2 | Producing ethylene by oxidatively dehydrogenating ethane | C07C Chemistry; metallurgy | ||
| US 12728382 B2 | Process and apparatus for removing unwanted components from a gas mixture | B01D Performing operations; transporting |
These are grants, not applications. The office usually publishes an application 18 months after the priority date; the grant tends to come much later. Owners counted: Linde GmbH. Titles as published by the office; median time based on 17 patents with a known filing date.
The patent screener lists more grants, filterable by company, type and technology field. The M&A and patents page compares companies.
Technical Analysis: Linde
Linde Risk Metrics
The close on Oct 30, 2026, was 5.9% below the highest close since Jul 11, 2024. That high was reached on Jul 2, 2026. When the S&P 500 rose or fell 1%, Linde moved 0.03% on average in the same direction (past 252 trading days). The correlation of 0.02, however, shows only a moderate link to the broad market. Accordingly, moves in the S&P 500 explain only a small part of the daily price moves of Linde.
What Linde Correlates With
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| Martin Marietta Materials Inc. | +0.42 | |
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| Amazon.com Inc. | -0.36 |
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