LIN
Linde plc
Linde plc is an industrial gas and engineering company with $231.8B market cap, showing a strong evidentiary signal from 2 executive branch holders and 3 congressional traders in the last 12 months.
Govt Dependence
5/100
Regulatory Density
65/100
Lobbying Intensity
0/100
Political Signal
BULLISH
BusinessWhat LIN does
Linde plc operates in the industrial gases and engineering sector, producing atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon) and process gases for manufacturing, healthcare, and energy markets. Its revenue is derived from on-site supply contracts, merchant liquid sales, and engineering project services for gas production plants.
12 months past · 3 months futureLIN activity timeline
Congress
buy
sell
Insider · Form 4
open-market buy
Hedge fund · 13F
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closed
holds
Bills
past action (this ticker)
upcoming markup (sector)
★ carveout (this ticker)
240 trading days ·
24 congressional trades shown
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1 insider buys
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13 13F filings
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0 past bill actions
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4 upcoming markups
Executive Branch ConflictsLIN held by Trump-administration officials
2 cabinet/senior officials reported LIN positions in OGE Form 278 disclosures across 3 filings.
Lifetime Government AwardsLIN federal contracts
LIN doesn't hold direct federal contracts.
Verified via USASpending.gov: $0 reported in direct prime-contract awards. Companies in this position typically sell federal services indirectly through prime contractors and integrators (e.g., Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen, Microsoft Azure) or through commercial channels that don't appear in USASpending data.
Smart Money · 13F HoldingsHedge funds holding LIN
$5.16B
Total LIN held by tracked 13F funds
40
Funds with LIN positions
+39
Funds opened this quarter
Millennium Management
$412M
opened
2025-03-31
Citadel Advisors
$392M
opened
9 overlap
2025-12-31
Millennium Management
$373M
opened
2025-12-31
Millennium Management
$272M
opened
2025-09-30
Millennium Management
$224M
opened
2025-06-30
Citadel Advisors
$203M
opened
2024-12-31
D.E. Shaw & Co.
$203M
opened
9 overlap
2025-12-31
Two Sigma Investments
$200M
opened
2025-03-31
32 more 13F positions tracked · quarterly delta charts available in member dashboard
Politicians Trading LINMembers of Congress with recent LIN positions
15 politicians traded LIN across 75 disclosed transactions totaling $1.9M (last 730 days).
Greed score = composite of trade frequency, volume & recency across the politician's entire history (not just LIN). 0-30 LOW · 30-60 MID · 60+ HIGH.
Ro Khanna
14 buys
19 sells
$766K
2026-01-29
LOW · 0
Jefferson Shreve
2 buys
4 sells
$365K
2025-05-12
LOW · 0
George Whitesides
2 sells
$350K
2025-03-24
LOW · 0
Jonathan L. Jackson
2 sells
$150K
2025-05-07
LOW · 1
Robert P. Bresnahan
6 sells
$48K
2025-04-08
LOW · 0
Lisa C. McClain
2 buys
2 sells
$32K
2025-07-16
LOW · 0
Jared Moskowitz
4 buys
$32K
2024-11-08
LOW · 0
Val T. Hoyle
2 buys
2 sells
$32K
2025-09-23
LOW · 0
Dan Newhouse
2 sells
$16K
2025-04-11
LOW · 5
Gilbert Ray Cisneros
2 buys
$16K
2026-01-09
HIGH · 61
Greg Landsman
2 sells
$16K
2024-10-15
LOW · 0
John James
2 sells
$16K
2024-09-04
LOW · 0
Josh Gottheimer
2 sells
$16K
2024-06-21
LOW · 1
Thomas H. Kean
2 buys
$16K
2026-03-26
LOW · 2
Kevin Hern
2 buys
$16K
2024-06-21
LOW · 1
Congressional TradesWho in Congress is trading LIN
2026-03-26
Thomas H. Kean
Purchase
$1,001 - $15,000
2026-02-18
Thomas H. Kean
Purchase
$1,001 - $15,000
2026-01-09
Gilbert Ray Cisneros
Purchase
$1,001 - $15,000
2026-01-13
Ro Khanna
Purchase
$1,001 - $15,000
2026-01-29
Ro Khanna
Sale
$15,001 - $50,000
2026-01-23
Ro Khanna
Purchase
$1,001 - $15,000
2025-12-19
Gilbert Ray Cisneros
Purchase
$1,001 - $15,000
2025-11-03
Ro Khanna
Sale
$15,001 - $50,000
2025-11-10
Ro Khanna
Sale
$15,001 - $50,000
2025-10-30
Ro Khanna
sale
$1,001 - $15,000
2025-10-30
Ro Khanna
Sale
$1,001 - $15,000
2025-09-23
Val T. Hoyle
sale
$1,001 - $15,000
30+ trades on file · most recent 2026-04-13
Corporate Insiders · Form 4What CEOs, CFOs, and directors are doing with their own stock
Open-market buys
B
Insider signal score 60/100 · 1 distinct insiders · 2 open-market buys totaling $2.0M (incl. 2 CEO/CFO buys) in the last 180 days.
2025-12-08
Lamba Sanjiv
Chief Executive Officer
BUY
2,520 sh
$1000K
Stock awards & option exercises
1
option exercises · $94K
For LIN, executives receive stock primarily as compensation rather than via open-market purchases — typical for established large-cap firms.
Bills Affecting LINLive legislation impacting this stock
HR.2457 · 119th
Mining Schools Act of 2025
HR.2310 · 119th
COBALT Supply Chain Act
S.789 · 119th
Critical Minerals Security Act of 2025
S.859 · 119th
Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act of 2025
HR.1926 · 119th
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling.
HRES.179 · 119th
Expressing support for the strengthening of United States-Africa partnerships in critical minerals development.
HR.6909 · 118th
COBALT Supply Chain Act
HR.1309 · 118th
To require the use of replacement cost value in determining the premium rates for flood insurance coverage under the National Floo
HR.1331 · 118th
To treat Hurricane Ian as a qualified disaster for purposes of determining the tax treatment of certain disaster-related personal
HR.1351 · 118th
Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act
Political ProfileWhere LIN sits in Washington
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STRUCTURAL: Low direct influence footprint (0 lobbying spend, 0 donations). EVIDENTIARY: Strong transactional interest from government insiders: CEO purchased $2.0M in stock on 2025-12-08 (`get_corporate_insider_signal.top_buys`), stock is held by 2 executive branch filers including former President Trump (`get_executive_branch_exposure.by_ticker[0].holdings`), and 3 distinct members of Congress traded the stock 16 times in 12 months (`Top congressional traders`). Net: Evidentiary buying pressure from corporate and government insiders outweighs absent structural lobbying.
Regulatory ExposureThreats & opportunities
Regulatory threats
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Sector-wide mining legislation impacting operational costs or inputs.Multiple Congressional Committees"8 recent bills in `Recent bill_impacts` with sector 'mining' and non-zero revenue impact estimates."
Regulatory opportunities
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Potential beneficiary of mining support or critical mineral supply chain bills.Congress"`Recent bill_impacts` shows multiple mining-sector bills with positive estimated revenue impact."
Capitol Hill AlliesChampions & critics
Congressional champions
Congressional critics
- No specific congressional critics identified.
Member intelligence layer
Live signals + predictions for LIN — for Founders
The free page above gives you the public record. Members see the real-time intelligence layer on top of it:
- Live 7-layer signal scores when Congress trades LIN
- Bill Pass Index v2 odds for every bill on the watch list
- Iron Triangle alerts (committee × donor × trade)
- SEC Form 4 cluster detection (CEO + CFO + director buys)
- Whale-Opportunity expected-value ranking
- Custom watchlist alerts via email + Discord
Frequently AskedAbout LIN & political exposure
Does Linde plc (LIN) hold federal contracts?
No direct prime contracts reported in USASpending.gov for Linde plc. Companies in the semiconductor and AI hardware sectors often sell to the federal government via prime contractors and cloud resellers (Microsoft Azure, AWS, Lockheed Martin systems integration) rather than as direct primes.
Which Trump cabinet officials own LIN stock?
2 Trump cabinet members or senior White House staff have disclosed holdings in LIN on their OGE 278 financial disclosures, including Donald J. Trump, Sean Duffy. See the Cabinet Conflicts panel for details.
Has Congress traded LIN stock?
323 congressional trades by 36 unique members of Congress, most recently on 2026-03-26. See the Congressional Trading panel for politician-by-politician breakdown.
What is LIN political risk profile?
Government dependence: 5/100. Lobbying intensity: 0/100. Political signal: bullish. Donor party split: R 0% / D 0%.
How does GovGreed track LIN political activity?
GovGreed integrates STOCK Act congressional trade disclosures, FEC contributions, OGE executive-branch disclosures, USASpending federal contracts, Senate LDA lobbying filings, and SEC Form 4 corporate insider trades into a single queryable graph. LIN data is updated daily from these official federal sources.