Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 80

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 80
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410.71 |   |     |            | $ |      418.67 |   |     |            | $ |      418.67 |   |
| Company volatility            |     |            |   |      25.15 | % |     |            |   |       14.55 | % |     |            |   |       17.29 | % |
| Peer group median volatility  |     |            |   |      29.30 | % |     |            |   |       23.99 | % |     |            |   |       24.43 | % |
| Risk-free interest rate       |     |            |   |       4.19 | % |     |            |   |        4.12 | % |     |            |   |        4.21 | % |
| Dividend yield                |     |            |   |       1.24 | % |     |            |   |        1.33 | % |     |            |   |        1.33 | % |
| Avg. correlation coefficient  |     |            |   | 0.45210189 |   |     |            |   | 0.256253378 |   |     |            |   | 0.311887857 |   |
| Company TSR during gap        |     |            |   |      25.52 | % |     |            |   |       29.51 | % |     |            |   |        3.71 | % |
| Peer med. TSR during gap      |     |            |   |      13.27 | % |     |            |   |       16.88 | % |     |            |   |        7.67 | % |

| 74 | Linde plc |

Executive Compensation Matters

Pay versus Performance

(9) Below is a table summarizing the weighted-average assumptions that were used to value the stock option awards for purposes of calculating the Compensation Actually Paid to the CEO and other NEOs.

| Grant Date     |     | 3/8/2021   |     |       |   |     |          |     |       |   |     | 3/7/2022   |     |       |   |     |          |     |       |   |     |            |     |       |   |     | 3/7/2023