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What Do Wall Street Analysts Think of Linde?

Linde stock is trading -9.23% below its average target price of $423.76 after dropping -1.3% during today's afternoon session. Analysts are giving the large-cap Chemicals company an average rating of buy and target prices ranging from $339.0 to $461.36 per share.

The stock has a very low short interest at 0.6%, and a short ratio of 2.69. The company's insiders own 0.19% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 86.5% of Linde's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in Linde

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2023-06-30 Vanguard Group Inc 9% 43,954,621 $16,907,584,674
2023-06-30 Blackrock Inc. 7% 34,434,793 $13,245,687,601
2023-06-30 State Street Corporation 4% 20,118,836 $7,738,911,529
2023-06-30 FMR, LLC 3% 13,564,844 $5,217,852,942
2023-06-30 Massachusetts Financial Services Co. 2% 12,121,647 $4,662,712,779
2023-06-30 Capital Research Global Investors 2% 12,033,505 $4,628,808,077
2023-06-30 Capital World Investors 2% 11,856,849 $4,560,855,579
2023-06-30 Capital International Investors 2% 11,214,833 $4,313,897,702
2023-06-30 Geode Capital Management, LLC 2% 9,568,654 $3,680,678,482
2023-06-30 Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 2% 9,064,242 $3,486,651,360

Besides an analyst consensus of some upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on Linde.

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