Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form Type: 11-K
Source: 0001628280-25-032289
Chunk: 15

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form: 11-K
Chunk 15
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,893,050,531 |
| *   |     | Participant loans                                               |     | Rates ranging 2.25% to 9.50%; maturities through 2054                                                  |     |      |     |               |    50,639,635 |
|     |     | Total investments, at fair value and participant loans          |     |                                                                                                        |     |      |     | $             | 2,943,690,166 |

| * |     | Party-in-interest as defined by ERISA |

| **                                                          |     | Cost information is not required for participant directed investments and, therefore, is not included |
| See Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |     |                                                                                                       |

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Index to Exhibits</div>

| Exhibit No. |     | Description                                              |
| 23.01       |     | Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |

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Signature</div>

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Administrator of the Plan has duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

| June 20, 2025 |     | Linde Retirement Savings Plan |     | By:                    |     | /s/ Melanie Douglass                          |
|:--------------|:----|:------------------------------|:----|:-----------------------|:----|:----------------------------------------------|
|               |     |                               |     |                        |     | Melanie Douglass,                             |
|               |     |                               |     |                        |     | Administration and Investment                 |
|               |     |                               |     |                        |     | Committee for the Linde U.S. Retirement Plans |
|               |     |                               |     | -On behalf of the Plan |     |                                               |

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