Among the opportunities that Linde could seize are its increasing investments in research and development with the aim of offering alternatives to carcinogenic solvents. These innovations should enable the group to attract new customers and improve its brand image.
Linde is also expected to increasingly expand in the area of modular and hardware footprints, which are particularly cost-effective. The group is doing everything possible to meet its customers' future energy objectives.
Finally, Linde's ownership of the world's largest helium plant should enable it to gain further market share in this area.
The threats include significant competition from shale gas and the threat of a further decline in production margins.
Finally, the company's ever-increasing debt is of course a long-term problem for the company.
It is of course very important to know a company well before buying or selling its shares on the stock market. Understanding who Linde is and what its major activities and sources of income are is essential to understanding how the group generates its turnover, the segments in which it operates and its growth capacities. The following is an introduction to the company:
The Linde Group plc is a German company specialising in the gas sector. More specifically, the company is currently one of the world's leading engineering and production companies for industrial gases.
In order to better understand the activities carried out by this group, they can be divided into different divisions according to the share of turnover they generate and in this way
It is also possible to break down the group's turnover by target sectors with :
Finally, we can of course look at the geographical distribution of the Linde Group's revenues. Only 12.9% of its turnover is generated in Germany and 5.9% in the UK. The rest of its turnover comes from Europe, Middle East and Africa (4.7%), the USA (30.5%), Brazil (3.5%), the Americas (4.9%), China (7.1%), Australia (4%), Asia Pacific (9.6%) and the rest of the world (16.9%).
Before buying or selling, it is also interesting to know the sectoral environment in which Linde Group evolves with its main competitors because the communications, results and news of these groups can have a more or less strong influence on the stock market evolution of this value and its future trends.
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We now take a closer look at the most important partnerships that the Linde Group has recently entered into and that have an influence on its stock market.
In 2002, Linde and Hyprotech renewed a license agreement for the Hysys simulation platform for the development of olefins, natural gas, syngas and hydrogen production units by Linde.
In 2015, the Linde Group and its subsidiary Material Handling signed a partnership with Balyo, a specialist in the automation of logistics flows.
In 2017, Linde signed a sixth partnership with industrialist Sinopec in the establishment of the Ningbo Linde-ZRCC Gases Company joint venture. The capital of this joint venture will be equally owned by the two companies.
Linde Group's share capital is currently split between a large proportion of free float and freely traded capital and another proportion held by private investors including The Vanguard Group with 8.06%, SSgA Funds Management with 4.09%, Norges Bank Investment Management with 3. 04%, Capital Research & Management with 3.01%, Massachusettes Financial Services with 2.62%, Blackrock Fund Advisors with 2.42%, T Row Price Associate with 2.19%, Fidelity Management & Research with 1.90%, Capital Research & Management World Investors with 1.79% and Barclays Bank with 1.56%.
There are several ways to invest in the Linde share price online. First of all, you can of course buy shares of this listed company via a securities account for example. You can also trade the stock up or down using derivatives such as CFDs and without owning the stock.
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