Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 64

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
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 made. For more information, see the descriptions in the CD&A under the caption “Annual Performance-Based Variable Compensation.” |
| (3) | These are the number of shares underlying stock option grants made in March 2024. See the explanation set forth in the CD&A under the caption “2024 Equity Award Grants” for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| (4) | This is the number of RSUs granted in March 2024. See the explanation set forth in the CD&A under the caption “2024 Equity Award Grants” for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| (5) | These are the threshold, target and maximum number of shares that may be earned under PSU awards made in March 2024. See the explanation set forth in the CD&A under the caption “2024 Equity Award Grants” for more information.                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| (6) | The amounts shown are the full grant date fair values of the RSU, PSU, and the stock option awards made in 2024, calculated in accordance with accounting standards related to share-based compensation. The values for the PSU awards are based on the target number of units granted. These amounts are neither paid to any NEO nor equal to the amounts recognized by the Company as compensation expense in 2024.                    |

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Executive Compensation Matters

Executive Compensation Tables

2024 Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End The table below shows outstanding equity awards at the end of 2024. The material terms of the awards are described under the caption “2024 Equity Award Grants” in the CD&A and in the footnotes to the table below. Treatment of equity awards upon termination of employment is described in the “Severance and Other Change-in-Control Benefits” section under the caption “Equity Awards.”

|                   |     |             | Option Awards |     |               |        |     |          |        |     |        |           |     |            |           |     |               | Stock Awards |     |                 |           |     |                  |        |     |                   |            |
| Name              |     | Number of   
 Securities  
 Underlying  
 Unexercised 
 Options (#) 
 Exercisable 
 (1)         |               |     | Number of     
 Securities    
 Underlying    
 Unexercised   
 Options (#)   
 Unexercisable 
 (1)           |        |     | Option   
 Exercise 
 Price    
 ($)(2)   |        |     | Option