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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.
Linde plc filed a shelf registration on to offer, from time to time, ordinary shares, preferred shares, depositary shares, warrants, securities purchase contracts, units and debt securities. The prospectus permits multiple offerings under a shelf structure and will be supplemented with specific terms for each offering.
The registration references a €25.0 billion European debt issuance program and states that debt of Linde plc and Linde Inc. will generally rank pari passu, with upstream and downstream guarantees from Linde Inc. and Linde GmbH and specified limitations on enforceability under applicable law.
Linde plc reported solid growth for the quarter ended March 31, 2026. Sales reached $8,781 million, up 8% from 2025, driven by higher prices, new project start-ups and favorable currency, with industrial gases growth offsetting slightly lower Engineering revenue.
Reported operating profit rose 12% to $2,439 million, lifting operating margin to 27.8%. Net income attributable to Linde plc increased 11% to $1,857 million, and diluted EPS grew 13% to $3.98, helped by higher profit and fewer shares. Cash from operations was strong at $2,240 million, funding $1,342 million of capital expenditures and share repurchases and dividends. Americas and APAC delivered double-digit sales growth, while EMEA improved profit despite softer volumes.
Linde plc reported strong first-quarter 2026 results with net income of $1.86 billion and diluted EPS of $3.98, up 11% and 13% from a year ago. Adjusted net income was $2.02 billion and adjusted EPS reached $4.33, 10% higher than prior year.
Sales were $8.78 billion, up 8%, driven by 2% pricing, 1% volume growth and 5% favorable currency, plus 1% from acquisitions. Adjusted operating profit rose 8% to $2.63 billion, yielding a 30.0% adjusted operating margin.
Operating cash flow was $2.24 billion, up 4%, with free cash flow of $898 million after $1.34 billion of capital expenditures. Linde returned $1.55 billion to shareholders through dividends and buybacks. The company reaffirmed an efficiency-focused model with a 24% adjusted after-tax return on capital and guided 2026 adjusted EPS to $17.60–$17.90, implying 7–9% growth.
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.