LIN
Linde plc (LIN) currently trades at a P/E of 33.4x with an owner-earnings yield of 2.1%. The Buffett-Fit valuation pillar - owner-earnings yield, intrinsic-value multiple, and the company's underlying compounding rate - is the framework used on this page to grade undervaluation. Educational only, not investment advice.
Headline multiples. Linde plc trades at a trailing P/E of 33.4x, a P/B of 6.17x, and an EV-to-EBIT of 28.8x. None of these in isolation tells you whether the stock is undervalued - a 30x P/E is cheap for a quality compounder and expensive for a cyclical commodity producer. The point is the relationship between price and the underlying business quality on the same scale.
Owner-earnings yield. Linde plc's owner-earnings yield (free cash flow / enterprise value) currently sits at 2.1%. This is Buffett's preferred valuation lens because it asks "what does the business actually return to a 100% owner?" rather than accounting earnings that can be inflated by accruals. A yield above the 10-year Treasury plus a 4-5% equity-risk premium is the rough benchmark for "cheap" against a high-quality business.
Earnings yield (1/P/E). The inverted P/E gives an earnings yield of 3.0% - useful as a sanity-check against the owner-earnings yield above. Large gaps between the two usually mean either high stock-based compensation eroding cash earnings (yield gap negative) or aggressive working-capital management inflating cash earnings vs accounting earnings (yield gap positive).
What the framework concludes. Valuation alone doesn't decide whether LIN is a buy - Buffett's full rule is "a wonderful business at a fair price beats a fair business at a wonderful price." The valuation sub-score in the Buffett-Fit verdict on this page combines the metrics above with the company's underlying compounding rate (ROIC × reinvestment) to produce a single 0-100 number. Read the full verdict to see how it sits alongside moat strength, durability, management, and financial health.
La valoración en invest-like.com se evalúa contra tres benchmarks: el rendimiento de beneficios del propietario (la métrica preferida de Buffett - flujo de caja libre dividido entre el valor de empresa), el múltiplo del valor intrínseco (DCF y DCF inverso), y el precio frente a la tasa de compounding subyacente.
El score pondera esto contra los benchmarks medianos de calidad del sector - un PER de 20 es barato para un compounder de software y caro para un productor de materias primas cíclico, así que el bono sectorial cuenta. Solo educativo, no asesoramiento de inversión.
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