With a market cap of around $229.3 billion, Linde plc (LIN) is the world’s largest industrial gases company, supplying essential gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and specialty gases to a wide range of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, energy, and electronics. The United Kingdom-based company operates a highly integrated business model that combines gas production and distribution with engineering services for building large-scale processing plants, supported by long-term contracts that provide stable and predictable cash flows.
Linde is slated to announce its fiscal Q1 2026 results before the market opens on Friday, May 1. Ahead of this event, analysts expect the company to report an EPS of $4.27, a 8.1% rise from $3.95 in the year-ago quarter. It has exceeded Wall Street’s earnings expectations in each of the last four quarters, which is impressive.
