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The Linde plc (Nasdaq: LIN) SEC filings page on Stock Titan brings together the company’s U.S. regulatory disclosures with AI‑supported analysis to help investors interpret complex documents. Linde is an Irish‑incorporated global industrial gases and engineering company whose ordinary shares are listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC under the symbol LIN.
Linde’s current reports on Form 8‑K cover a range of topics relevant to shareholders. Examples include quarterly results announcements furnished under Item 2.02, which reference press releases detailing sales, operating profit, earnings per share, cash flow and segment performance, as well as non‑GAAP reconciliations. Other 8‑K filings describe governance and leadership changes under Item 5.02, such as appointments and retirements of directors and executive officers, and the creation or modification of senior roles like Chief Operating Officer or Chief Human Resources Officer.
Filings also document shareholder matters. For instance, Form 8‑K reports on the annual general meeting of shareholders, summarizing voting results for director elections, advisory votes on executive compensation, auditor ratification and authorizations related to treasury shares. These disclosures provide insight into Linde’s corporate governance practices as an Irish public company.
Capital structure and financing activities appear in 8‑K filings describing the issuance of notes under Linde’s European debt issuance program. These filings outline key terms such as maturities, interest structures, listing on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange’s Euro MTF market, and guarantees provided by subsidiaries Linde GmbH and Linde Inc.
On this page, AI‑powered tools highlight the most important points from Linde’s filings, helping readers quickly identify items related to earnings, governance, financing transactions and shareholder decisions, while links to the underlying SEC documents allow for deeper review when needed.
Vanguard Capital Management reported beneficial ownership of 34,874,653 shares of Linde PLC, representing 7.52% of the outstanding common stock. The filing lists 4,641,583 shares as sole voting power and 34,874,653 shares as sole dispositive power. The CUSIP is G54950103.
The filing states these holdings are reported on behalf of Vanguard Capital Management and affiliated Vanguard entities and include shares held by Vanguard funds and managed accounts over which Vanguard exercises dispositive power.
Linde plc is asking shareholders to vote at its 2026 Annual General Meeting in London on July 28, 2026. Items include electing nine directors, ratifying PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor, an advisory Say-On-Pay vote, approving a price range for re-allotting treasury shares under Irish law, and a shareholder proposal on renewable electricity reporting.
The company highlights 2025 sales of $34.0 billion with 3% growth, operating profit of $10.1 billion, a 29.8% operating margin, EPS of $16.46 up 6%, and after-tax return on capital of 24.2%. Linde generated $10.4 billion in operating cash flow, invested $5.3 billion in capital expenditures, and returned $7.4 billion to shareholders, including an 8% dividend increase.
Governance updates include Steve Angel’s retirement as Chairman and the Board’s decision to combine the Chairman and CEO roles under Sanjiv Lamba while maintaining Robert L. Wood as Lead Independent Director. The largely independent Board oversees strategy, capital allocation, risk, sustainability, and human capital, with robust stock ownership, anti-hedging and clawback policies tied to a pay-for-performance compensation framework.
Patwari Binod reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Linde plc senior vice president Binod Patwari reported performance-based equity awards and their payout in Ordinary Shares. This Form 4 amendment fully restates an earlier filing and corrects that 548, 195 and 195 Ordinary Shares were paid out from two Performance Share Unit grants and one Restricted Stock Unit grant, with no shares withheld for taxes.
The performance share units were based on Linde’s average annual return on capital and relative total shareholder return for 2023–2025, and the restricted stock units vested in full and paid out on March 9, 2026. Following these conversions, Patwari directly holds 5,277 Ordinary Shares.
LIN reported a Form 144 notice showing recent and planned transactions in Common Stock. The excerpt lists two sales by Stephen F. Angel Forge: 75,607 shares on 02/13/2026 for $36,119,600.08 and 37,263 shares on 02/24/2026 for $18,774,263.65. The filing also records a stock option exercise and a restricted stock vesting with vesting activity dated 03/08/2026.
Linde plc director Paula Rosput Reynolds reported a compensation-related equity award and updated her equity holdings. She received a grant of 17.212 Deferred Stock Units on a grant, award, or other acquisition basis, bringing her total Deferred Stock Units to 128.887, each convertible into Linde plc Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis.
She also reports direct holdings of Restricted Stock Units covering 473 Ordinary Shares under an award that vests in full one year after the March 9, 2026 date of grant, subject to continued Board service and potential pro-rata payout in certain cases, and an additional 470.156 Restricted Stock Units whose payout has been deferred. In addition, she directly holds 715.922 Linde plc Ordinary Shares.
GRANT HUGH reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Linde plc director Hugh Grant reported a routine equity compensation grant and updated his holdings. He received 68.85 Deferred Stock Units as a grant, each convertible into one Linde ordinary share on a 1-for-1 basis under the company’s non-employee director deferral plan.
After the grant, he directly holds 515.551 Deferred Stock Units, 473 and 470.156 Restricted Stock Units that each correspond 1-for-1 to ordinary shares, and 1,081.914 ordinary shares. One RSU award is scheduled to vest in full one year after the March 9, 2026 grant date, subject to continued Board service, with payout deferred until his Board service ends.
Linde PLC amendment to a Schedule 13G/A states that The Vanguard Group reports 0 shares beneficially owned in Linde common stock and 0% of the class. The filing explains an internal realignment effective January 12, 2026, under which Vanguard subsidiaries will report holdings separately and Vanguard "no longer has, or is deemed to have, beneficial ownership" of securities held by those subsidiaries. The form is signed by Ashley Grim, Head of Global Fund Administration, dated 03/27/2026.
Linde plc EVP and Chief Operating Officer Sean Durbin reported a combination of option exercises and share sales. He exercised stock options for 7,045 Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of $173.13 per share, then sold a total of 6,520 Ordinary Shares in open-market transactions at prices around $476–$478 per share. An additional 4,639 Ordinary Shares were withheld to cover the exercise price and tax obligations. After these transactions, he directly holds 8,150.559 Ordinary Shares, along with outstanding restricted stock units and stock options that are scheduled to vest and remain exercisable as detailed in the filing.
Linde plc executive Guillermo Bichara, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, sold 4,357 Ordinary Shares on March 10, 2026 in an open-market transaction at $480.79 per share. The sale was made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan entered into on August 22, 2025.
After the transaction, Bichara directly holds 22,137.769 Ordinary Shares and indirectly holds 2,944.983 Ordinary Shares through a 401(k) plan. He also retains multiple restricted stock units, stock options with exercise prices between $173.13 and $483.62, and deferred stock units, all convertible into Linde plc Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis.