Linde plc LIN
Linde plc is a public limited company formed under the laws of Ireland with its principal offices in the United Kingdom and United States. 10-K, Item 1
- Employees
- 65,177
- Headquarters
- Woking Surrey, X0
- CEO
- Sanjiv Lamba
- Next results
- around Feb 4, 2027
LIN among Materials peers
Six ratios from the latest 10-K. Each corner is the share of 23 peers the company is above, not a score.
What changed
Nothing new in the latest 10-K.
Each row opens the detail with the quote and the filing. A row is a change worth reading, not a verdict.
Accounting checks
11 checks on the latest 10-K. Checks, not verdicts.
0facts worth reading about all 11 checks found nothing to note
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Receivables +7.4% vs revenue +3.0% (+4.5 pts)
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Cash from operations $10.3B vs net income $6.9B (FY ending Dec 31, 2025)
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Inventory +5.6% vs revenue +3.0% (+2.6 pts)
8 more checks with nothing to note
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Same auditor in both 10-Ks: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
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No statement of substantial doubt about going concern
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No 8-K item 4.02 in the last 2 years
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No NT 10-K or NT 10-Q in the last 2 years
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The same matters as last year: Revenue Recognition - Estimated Costs at Completion
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No sentence in the 10-K concludes that controls were not effective because of a material weakness
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No 8-K item 2.06 in the last 2 years
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No 8-K item 1.03 in the last 2 years
In their words
No new paragraphs in Risk Factors
No new paragraphs in Risk Factors, or fewer than two 10-Ks to compare.
New risk paragraphs, against peers
Latest 10-K of each, Materials companies closest in revenue
Paragraphs in Risk Factors with nothing like them in the company's 10-K the year before. A count of text, not of risk.
Financial performance
Last 4 fiscal years · 10-K XBRL
| Metric | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $33.4B | $32.9B | $33.0B | $34.0B |
| Net income | $4.1B | $6.2B | $6.6B | $6.9B |
| Operating cash flow | $8.9B | $9.3B | $9.4B | $10.3B |
| Free cash flow | $5.7B | $5.5B | $4.9B | $5.1B |
Revenue, FY2016 to FY2025
Ten fiscal years, each from its own 10-K · XBRL · USD
$34.0B ▲ 3.0% in FY2025$6.9B ▲ 5.1% in FY2025$5.1B ▲ 3.3% in FY2025
Recent filings
2 filings in the last 30 days · SEC EDGAR
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8-KOct 29, 2026Quarterly results 8-K item 2.02
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10-QOct 29, 2026Quarterly report (10-Q) period ended Sep 30, 2026
About the company
Linde plc, Woking Surrey, X0 · from the 10-K filed Feb 25, 2026
Linde plc is a public limited company formed under the laws of Ireland with its principal offices in the United Kingdom and United States. Linde is the largest industrial gas company worldwide and is a major technological innovator in the industrial gases industry. Its primary products in its industrial gases business are atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases) and process gases (hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, electronic gases, specialty gases, and acetylene).
- Headquarters
- Woking Surrey, X0
- Country
- United States
- Reports in
- USD
- Listed on
- Nasdaq
- Fiscal year ends
- December 31
- Last results
- Oct 29, 2026
- Incorporated in
- Ireland
Employees, at the top of the page: "As of December 31, 2025, Linde had 65,177 employees worldwide comprised of approximately 28 percent women and 72 percent men" (10-K). Address and exchange: SEC's company file.
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Sources
Numbers from the XBRL of the 10-Ks; filings from SEC EDGAR.
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