Linde Financial Ratios
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Linde ratio analysis
Linde earned a net margin of 20.3% in FY 2025, up from 19.9% a year earlier. Gross margin was 48.8% compared with a median of 43.5% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 18.0%, meaning Linde generated 0.18 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.71 versus 0.57 the year before, and the current ratio was 0.88. At the end of FY 2025, LIN traded at 29.4 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 11.9 to 55.9, with a median of 34.2. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Linde financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 29.37 | 30.36 | 32.62 | 39.63 | 47.26 | 55.95 | 48.99 | 11.95 | 35.81 | 22.49 |
| Price / sales | 5.93 | 6.00 | 6.10 | 4.89 | 5.82 | 5.09 | 3.93 | 3.49 | 3.90 | 3.18 |
| Price / book | 5.27 | 5.20 | 5.05 | 4.07 | 4.07 | 2.93 | 2.26 | 1.00 | 7.36 | 6.15 |
| Gross margin | 48.8% | 48.1% | 46.8% | 41.7% | 43.0% | 43.5% | 41.0% | 39.2% | 43.8% | 44.4% |
| Operating margin | 26.3% | 26.2% | 24.4% | 16.1% | 16.2% | 12.2% | 10.4% | 35.4% | 21.5% | 21.3% |
| Net margin | 20.3% | 19.9% | 18.9% | 12.4% | 12.4% | 9.2% | 8.1% | 29.5% | 11.0% | 14.2% |
| Free cash flow margin | 15.0% | 14.9% | 16.8% | 17.1% | 21.6% | 14.8% | 8.6% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 12.6% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 18.0% | 17.2% | 15.6% | 10.4% | 8.7% | 5.3% | 4.7% | 8.5% | 20.7% | 27.6% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 7.9% | 8.2% | 7.7% | 5.2% | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2.6% | 4.7% | 6.1% | — |
| Debt / equity | 0.71 | 0.57 | 0.49 | 0.45 | 0.32 | 0.34 | 0.28 | 0.30 | 1.50 | — |
| Current ratio | 0.88 | 0.89 | 0.80 | 0.79 | 0.74 | 0.80 | 0.85 | 1.33 | 0.99 | — |
| Revenue growth | 3.0% | 0.5% | -1.5% | 8.3% | 13.0% | -3.5% | 90.3% | 30.6% | 7.8% | — |
| EPS growth | 7.3% | 8.2% | 53.0% | 12.3% | 55.6% | 12.4% | -68.0% | 203.5% | -17.1% | — |