Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 94

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 94
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| Linde plc | 87 |

#### Information on Share Ownership
Information o n Share Ownership Principal Holders To the Company’s knowledge, the only beneficial owners of more than 5% of Linde’s Ordinary Shares are the following:

| Name and Address of Beneficial Owner                      |     | Number of Shares   
 Beneficially Owned |                |     | Percent of Shares 
 Outstanding(d)    |
| The Vanguard Group, 100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, PA 19355 |     |                    | 44,345,140 (a) |     | 9.40%             |
| BlackRock, Inc., 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055  |     |                    | 36,604,631 (b) |     | 7.80%             |
| The Capital Group Companies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA        |     |                    | 28,308,687 (c) |     | 6.00%             |

| (a) | According to a Form TR-1 provided to the Company, on March 26, 2025 The Vanguard Group, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries had voting power as to 44,345,140 shares                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| (b) | Holdings as of September 30, 2024, as reported in SEC Schedules 13G filed by the BlackRock Inc. According to its Schedule 13G, BlackRock and certain of its affiliates had sole voting power as to 33,344,549 shares, shared voting power as to 0 shares, shared dispositive power as to 0 shares, and sole dispositive power as to 36,604,631 shares. |
| (c) | According to a Form TR-1 provided to the Company, on January 29, 2025 The Capital Group Companies, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries had voting power as to 28,308,687 shares.                                                                                                                                                                      |
| (d) | Based on 471,294,205 total shares outstanding on April 1, 2025 excluding shares held for the account of Linde.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |

| 88 | Linde plc |

#### Information on Share Ownership
Executive Officers and Directors The table below sets forth the beneficial ownership of Linde’s Ordinary Shares as of April 1, 2025, by each director and certain executive officers. No director or executive officer of Linde beneficially owned