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Linde PLC LIN
10 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY9 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
Revenue · FY2025
$34.0B
▲ 3.0% vs FY2024
Dividend streak
9 yrs
Raised every year since 2017
EPS · FY25
$14.61
Dividend / sh · FY25
$6.00
Payout · FY25
41%
ROE · FY25
18.1%
Net margin · FY25
20.3%
Dividend coverage
2.4×
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Result
USD 34.0B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 10-year series below
Revenue
Net income
20 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.
Per share
USD 14.61
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS
Dividend
Earnings covered the dividend 2.4 times — the rest stayed in the company.
Profitability
18.1%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
Operating margin26.3%
Net margin20.3%
Return on assets8.3%
Each USD of equity produced 18 cents of profit this year.
Returned to shareholders
USD 7.4B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidUSD 2.8B
Net buybacksUSD 4.6B
Share of profit107.1%
Consecutive raises9 years
USD 2.8B in dividends and USD 4.6B in buybacks — 107% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.
Growth
+4.5% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
+0.6%
+4.5%
Net income
+18.5%
+22.5%
EPS, diluted
+21.1%
+25.4%
Dividend / share
+8.6%
+9.3%
Returned to shareholders
−0.4%
+10.7%
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.
Share base
—
Shares outstanding, FY2025
Change, 5 years—
Change, 10 years—
A share split breaks the comparison across the period, so we leave it out.
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Balance sheet
USD 86.8B
total assets, end of FY2025
Total assetsUSD 86.8B
EquityUSD 38.2B
CashUSD 5.1B
Gross debtUSD 22.5B
Net debtUSD 17.4B
Current ratio0.88×
Net debt stands at 46% of equity.
History
10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
Metric
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
Revenue $B
34.0
33.0
32.9
33.4
30.8
27.2
28.2
14.8
11.4
10.5
Operating income $B
8.9
8.6
8.0
5.4
5.0
3.3
2.9
5.2
2.4
2.2
EBITDA $B
12.2
11.9
11.3
9.0
8.9
7.2
6.9
6.9
3.5
3.3
Income tax $B
2.0
2.0
1.8
1.4
1.3
0.8
0.8
0.8
1.0
0.6
Net income $B
6.9
6.6
6.2
4.1
3.8
2.5
2.3
4.4
1.2
1.5
EPS, diluted $
14.61
13.62
12.59
8.23
7.33
4.71
4.19
13.11
4.32
5.21
Dividend / sh $
6.00
5.56
5.10
4.68
4.24
3.85
3.50
3.30
3.15
3.00
Payout %
41
40
40
57
57
81
83
27
72
57
ROE %
18.1
16.9
15.5
9.9
8.4
5.2
4.5
15.2
20.7
·
Shares out B
·
·
·
·
0.51
0.52
0.53
0.55
·
·
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.
How we verifyAUDITED
28 of 28
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity
Every figure was compared against the original statement: 0 failures and 0 presentation gaps.
What we don’t show
We’d rather say what’s missing than fill the gap with an estimate.
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