Insights on Linde Stock for Informed Investing

By Emilio Sanchez • Tuesday, July 01 10:02 • Permanent Link

Linde logged a 0.1% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $469.69 per share. The S&P 500 index moved -0.0%. LIN's trading volume is 145,724 compared to the stock's average volume of 2,117,903.

Linde trades -5.01% away from its average analyst target price of $494.44 per share. The 24 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $381.0 to $576.0, and on average have given Linde a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in LIN, you'll want to know the following:

Linde's current price is 201.8% above its Graham number of $155.61, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
Linde has moved 9.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.6%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 13.79, Linde has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 34.1 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
LIN has a forward P/E ratio of 27.7 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $16.95 per share
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 5.82 compared to its sector average of 2.89
Linde plc operates as an industrial gas company in the United States, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, and internationally.
Based in Woking, the company has 65,069 full time employees and a market cap of $221.09 Billion. Linde currently returns an annual dividend yield of 1.2%.

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