profit from every ₹100 of sales.
₹0₹100
Linde India
₹6,822.50+0.41% today
+11.2% in 1 year
1-year low ₹5,632.501-year high ₹7,847.50
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2026.
0%20% a year
You pay ₹105.99 for every ₹1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
It holds more cash than debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Linde India sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from ₹25.1 billion in 2022 to ₹25.3 billion in 2026, with ₹5.49 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Linde India handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
₹1.0B
Free cash flow 2026₹193M
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends₹1.0B
Cash vs. debt₹1.1B vs. ₹789M
Linde India vs. similar companies
Linde India grows in the middle of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from ₹100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per ₹1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linde India | 106.0× · Very expensive | ||
 Linde | 35.0× · Expensive | ||
 L'Air Liquide | 34.9× · Expensive | ||
 Ecolab | 41.6× · Expensive | ||
 The Sherwin-Williams | 33.5× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Linde India's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of INR | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25,053 | 27,684 | 24,854 | 25,306 | |
| 14,778 | 17,913 | 19,186 | 19,637 | |
| 3,914 | 5,014 | 5,513 | 6,742 | |
| 6,689 | 7,871 | 8,400 | 9,828 | |
| 4,388 | 4,341 | 4,548 | 5,490 | |
| 51.45 | 50.90 | 53.33 | 64.37 | |
| 59.0% | 64.7% | 77.2% | 77.6% | |
| 15.6% | 18.1% | 22.2% | 26.6% | |
| 17.5% | 15.7% | 18.3% | 21.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of INR | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 43,943 | 48,052 | 51,427 | 58,083 |
| Cash | 12,403 | 9,788 | 1,454 | 1,104 |
| Total debt | 227 | 207 | 424 | 789 |
| Total liabilities | 13,543 | 13,368 | 13,228 | 15,417 |
| 30,399 | 34,684 | 38,199 | 42,665 | |
| 85 | 85 | 85 | 85 | |
| 11.8% | 12.6% | 12.2% | 12.9% | |
| 14.4% | 12.5% | 11.9% | 12.9% |
Cash flow
| In millions of INR | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,685 | 4,404 | 5,836 | 7,855 | |
| 2,421 | 5,717 | 13,305 | 7,662 | |
| 3,264 | -1,313 | -7,469 | 193 | |
| Dividends paid | 1,151 | 1,021 | 1,020 | 1,020 |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | 62 | 25 | 61 |
Valuation
- 106.0×
- –
- 18.40
- 13.4×
- 23.0×
- 3,017.3×
- 59.2×
- 0.0%
- 0.9%
- 0.2%
Profitability
- 77.6%
- 26.6%
- 21.7%
- –
- 12.9%
- 12.4%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- +0.3%
- +5.8%
- –
- –
- −0.0%
Financial health
- -0.0×
- 0.02
- –
- 51.6×
- 0.86
- –
- –
How it ranks in Materials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 21%of 989
Top 14%of 958
Bottom 6%of 774
Bottom 37%of 935
Bottom 35%of 990
0.2%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$2a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
18.6% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 528.8%
News
Linde plc (LIN) Adds Exposure to Industrial Gases and Secular Growth TrendsYahoo Finance · Oct 14, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
0/7Passes 0 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
56No pass
Benjamin Graham
38No pass
Philip Fisher
54No pass
Peter Lynch
32No pass
Joel Greenblatt
14No pass
Charlie Munger
55No pass
Terry Smith
38No pass
Questions about Linde India
Is Linde India a good stock to buy?
A strong, very profitable business, priced as if everything goes right. 0 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Linde India AI analysis
What does Linde India do?
Linde India Limited manufactures and sells industrial and medical gases in India. It operates through Gases, Related Products and Services; and Project Engineering Division segments. It is in Specialty Chemicals, based in Kolkata, India.
Does Linde India pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 0.2% a year, about 19% of its yearly profit. In 2026 it paid out ₹1.02 billion in dividends.
Is Linde India stock halal?
Yes. Linde India passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 0.1% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Linde India stock done over the past year?
Up 11.2% over the past twelve months, to ₹6,822.50. It traded between ₹5,632.50 and ₹7,847.50 and is 13.1% below its high.
Who are Linde India's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Linde, L'Air Liquide, Ecolab and The Sherwin-Williams. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Linde India's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 11, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.