Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form Type: 11-K
Source: 0001628280-25-032289
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Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-06-20
Form: 11-K
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### Form 11-K
| ý |     | ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |

#### For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024

#### OR
| ¨ |     | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |

#### For the transition period from

#### to

#### Commission File Number 001-38730
| A. |     | Full title of the plan and the address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below: |

#### Linde Retirement Savings Plan

#### Linde Inc.

#### 10 Riverview Drive

#### Danbury, CT 06810-6268
| B. |     | Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office: |

#### Linde plc

#### Forge

#### 43 Church Street West

#### Woking, Surrey GU21 6HT

#### United Kingdom
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#### Linde Retirement Savings Plan

#### Index
|                                                                                                |     | Page |
| Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm                                        |     |    3 |
| Financial Statements                                                                           |     |      |
| Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits as of December 31, 2024 and 2023               |     |    4 |
| Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits for the Year Ended December 31, 2024 |     |    5 |
| Notes to Financial Statements                                                                  |     | 6-12 |
| Supplemental Schedule                                                                          |     |      |
| Schedule H, line 4i—Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year) as of December 31, 2024           |     |   13 |
| Index to Exhibits                                                                              |     |   14 |
| Signature                                                                                      |     |   15 |

All other schedules required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) have been omitted because they are not applicable.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</div>

To the Administration and Investment Committee for the Linde U.S