The Linde Group Fundamental Company Report Including Financial, SWOT, Competitors and Industry Analysis

The Linde Group Fundamental Company Report provides a complete overview of the company’s affairs. All available data is presented in a comprehensive and easily accessed format. The report includes financial and SWOT information, industry analysis, opinions, estimates, plus annual and quarterly forecasts made by stock market experts. The report also enables direct comparison to be made between The Linde Group and its competitors. This provides our Clients with a clear understanding of The Linde Group position in the Chemical Industry.

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• The report outlines the main financial ratios pertaining to profitability, margin analysis, asset turnover, credit ratios, and company’s long-term solvency.
• It also shows the company’s income statement and ratio trend-charts, with balance sheets and cash flows presented on an annual and quarterly basis.
• Company’s financial ratios are directly compared with those of its competitors through industry averages.
• The report provides relevant news, an analysis of PR-activity, and stock price movements.
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About The Linde Group

Linde AG is an international technology group which has engaged in each of its three business segments, Gas and Engineering, Material Handling and Refrigeration.

Gas and Engineering

Linde Gas is a supplier of industrial, medical and pharmaceutical gases, is focusing particularly on the expansion of healthcare and the environmentally friendly fuel hydrogen.

Linde Engineering, which develops its own processes and technologies, is targeting growth markets in international plant construction, increasingly by applying its specialist competence to plants producing hydrogen, oxygen and olefins and natural gas treatment plants.

Linde Gas: Linde Gas is the principal supplier of industrial and medical gases in Europe. The company's focus is on the on-site business, where it supplies industrial gases to large-scale consumers from plants located directly at the user's site, and healthcare, i.e. the medical and pharmaceutical gas business.

Linde Engineering: By using the company’s own processes and having a clear technological focus on a few well-chosen growth-areas, such as hydrogen, oxygen and olefin plants and natural gas processing plants Linde Engineering is successful throughout the world.

Material Handling

With its three brands, Linde, STILL and OM Pimespo, as well as its strategic partner Komatsu, the Linde Group manufactures industrial trucks in the world. The company's range of products include engine-powered forklift trucks, electric trucks and warehouse trucks. The company's business success in this segment, which it is repeating in emerging markets such as Asia, is based on products at the cutting edge of technology and an extensive range of service options from financing to fleet management.

Refrigeration

The company supplies industrial refrigerated and freezer display cases, as well as refrigeration technology, for all areas of the retail food trade. The company sets the pace in terms of design, cost-effectiveness and environmental protection, working together with its customers to develop comprehensive tailor-made solutions based on its key account management. The company offers turnkey competence in the new growth markets of Eastern Europe, Asia and South America.

Significant Events

In December 2007, The Linde Group has set up a joint venture with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, for the production and long-term supply of industrial gases to customers in Abu Dhabi. ADNOC Linde Industrial Gases Company Ltd. is established under the name 'Elixier' and will have ADNOC (51% of the shares) and Linde (49% of the shares) as shareholders.

Flowserve Corp. has entered into a joint venture agreement with The Linde Group to commercialize and deploy iKompressor natural gas and biogas refueling systems.

The company has entered into a 50:50 joint venture with a subsidiary of Sinopec Fujian Petrochemical Company Limited for the long-term supply of industrial gases to customers in China's southeast province of Fujian.

On May 11, 2009, The Linde Group has signed a contract with China's Sinopec Sichuan Vinylon Works (SVW) to jointly build gas production facilities for the long-term supply of SVW's chemical complex in the Chongqing Chemical Industrial Park, western China.

In November 2009, the company and the Algenol Biofuels LLC have agreed to collaborate in a joint development project to identify the optimum management of carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen (O2) for Algenol's algae and photobioreactor technology.

History

Linde AG was founded in 1879.

Contents

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

DISCLAIMER

1. THE LINDE GROUP COMPANY PROFILE

1.1. Key facts
1.2. Financial Performance
1.3. Key Executives
1.4. Ownership and Major Holders
1.5. Company History

2. THE LINDE GROUP BUSINESS OVERVIEW

2.1. Business Description
2.2. Major Products and Services
2.3. Markets and Sales Activities
2.4. Locations, Subsidiaries, Operating Units

3. THE LINDE GROUP SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1. Overview
3.2. Strengths
3.3. Weaknesses
3.4. Opportunities
3.5. Threats

4. THE LINDE GROUP FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

4.1. Financial Statements
  4.1.1. Income Statement
  4.1.2. Balance Sheet
  4.1.3. Cash Flow
4.2. Financial Ratios
  4.2.1. Profitability
  4.2.2. Margin Analysis
  4.2.3. Asset Turnover
  4.2.4. Credit Ratios
  4.2.5. Long-Term Solvency
  4.2.6. Growth Over Prior Year
  4.2.7. Financial Ratios Charts
4.3. Stock Market Snapshot

5. THE LINDE GROUP COMPETITORS AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

5.1. The Linde Group Direct Competitors
5.2. Comparison of The Linde Group and Direct Competitors Financial Ratios
5.3. Comparison of The Linde Group and Direct Competitors Stock Charts
5.4. The Linde Group Industry Analysis
  5.4.1. Chemicals Industry Snapshot
  5.4.2. The Linde Group Industry Position Analysis

6. THE LINDE GROUP NEWS & EVENTS

6.1. News & PR Activity Analysis
6.2. IR Corporate News
6.3. Marketing News
6.4. Corporate Events

7. THE LINDE GROUP EXPERTS REVIEW

7.1. Experts Opinion
7.2. Experts Estimates

APPENDIX 1: RATIO DEFINITIONS

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. The Linde Group Key Facts
Table 2. The Linde Group Profitability
Table 3. The Linde Group Management Effectiveness
Table 4. The Linde Group Income Statement Key Figures
Table 5. The Linde Group Balance Sheet Key Figures
Table 6. The Linde Group Cash Flow Statement Key Figures
Table 7. Financial Performance Abbreviation Guide
Table 8. The Linde Group Key Executives
Table 9. The Linde Group Key Executives Biographies *
Table 10. The Linde Group Key Executives Compensations *
Table 11. The Linde Group Key Executives Stock Options *
Table 12. The Linde Group Major Shareholders
Table 13. The Linde Group History
Table 14. The Linde Group Products
Table 15. The Linde Group Revenues by Product
Table 16. The Linde Group Revenues by Region
Table 17. The Linde Group Offices and Representations
Table 18. The Linde Group SWOT Analysis
Table 19. The Linde Group Income Statement 2008-2011 Including 4-years Trends
Table 20. The Linde Group Income Statement Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Table 21. The Linde Group Balance Sheet 2008-2011 Including Trends
Table 22. The Linde Group Balance Sheet Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Table 23. The Linde Group Cash Flow 2008-2011 Including Trends
Table 24. The Linde Group Cash Flow Latest 4 Quarters Including Trends
Table 25. The Linde Group Profitability Ratios
Table 26. The Linde Group Margin Analysis Ratios
Table 27. The Linde Group Asset Turnover Ratios
Table 28. The Linde Group Credit Ratios
Table 29. The Linde Group Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Table 30. The Linde Group Financial Ratios Growth Over Prior Year
Table 31. The Linde Group Capital Market Snapshot
Table 32. The Linde Group Direct Competitors Key Facts
Table 33. The Linde Group Direct Competitors Profitability Ratios
Table 34. The Linde Group Direct Competitors Margin Analysis Ratios
Table 35. The Linde Group Direct Competitors Asset Turnover Ratios
Table 36. The Linde Group Direct Competitors Credit Ratios
Table 37. The Linde Group Direct Competitors Long-Term Solvency Ratios
Table 38. Chemicals Industry Statistics
Table 39. The Linde Group Industry Position
Table 40. The Linde Group vs. Industry Income Statement Analysis
Table 41. The Linde Group vs. Industry Balance Sheet Analysis
Table 42. The Linde Group vs. Industry Cash Flow Analysis
Table 43. The Linde Group vs. Industry Ratios Comparison
Table 44. The Linde Group Consensus Recommendations*
Table 45. The Linde Group Analyst Recommendation Summary*
Table 46. The Linde Group Price Target Summary*
Table 47. The Linde Group Experts Recommendation Trends*
Table 48. The Linde Group Revenue Estimates Analysis*
Table 49. The Linde Group Earnings Estimates Analysis*
Table 50. The Linde Group Historical Surprises*
Table 51. The Linde Group Revenue Estimates Trend*
Table 52. The Linde Group Earnings Estimates Trend*
Table 53. The Linde Group Revenue Revisions*
Table 54. The Linde Group Earnings Revisions*

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. The Linde Group Annual Revenues in Comparison with Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit
Figure 2. The Linde Group Profit Margin Chart
Figure 3. The Linde Group Operating Margin Chart
Figure 4. The Linde Group Return on Equity (ROE) Chart
Figure 5. The Linde Group Return on Assets (ROA) Chart
Figure 6. The Linde Group Debt to Equity Chart
Figure 7. The Linde Group Current Ratio Chart
Figure 8. The Linde Group 1-year Stock Charts
Figure 9. The Linde Group 5-year Stock Charts
Figure 10. The Linde Group vs. Main Indexes 1-year Stock Chart
Figure 11. The Linde Group vs. Direct Competitors 1-year Stock Charts
Figure 12. The Linde Group Article Density Chart

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