Linde plc has grown revenue 2.3% a year over three years and 4.1% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 11%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +2.3% (Specialty Chemicals median +3.3%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +4.1%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +11%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 10, FY2016 to FY2025, as filed.

LINLinde plc

Basic Materials

$483.78+2.7% 1Y

$483.78

$386.8552 weeks$529.66

Is it growing?

Mixed

Neither accelerating nor breaking down: nothing decisive, though earnings up +10% year on year.

1 good, 2 neutral

Revenue trend+7% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +4% a year.

Earnings trend+10% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing faster than revenue, so margins or the share count are helping.

Margin direction−0.3 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 26.4% now against 26.8% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearsbehind 67% of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is LIN growing?

Linde plc has grown revenue 2.3% a year over three years and 4.1% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 11%.

+2.3%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Specialty Chemicals median +3.3% · growing slowly · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +4.1%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +2.3% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +11%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +2.3% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 10
Years of annual history on file · FY2016 to FY2025, as filed