LIN
Moving with the market
- LIN +0.58% on the last session vs SPY −0.03%: +0.6 pts of stock-specific move.
- 2 analyst actions in the past 10 days (0 positive, 2 negative); latest: Citigroup maintained Buy, lowered target $580 → $560.
- 1 insider or congressional trade in the past 30 days.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices LIN only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
497.34 +0.9% reached 3 in 10 days reached today |
503.13 +2.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
| Now | 495.55 · prior close 492.70 | |
| Bargain buy side |
488.11 -0.9% reached 3 in 10 days |
482.49 -2.1% reached 3 in 10 weeks |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 486.62 | 2 in 10 days | 498.85 | 2 in 10 days |
| Balanced | 488.11 | 3 in 10 days | 497.34 | 3 in 10 days |
| Eager | 489.49 | 4 in 10 days | 495.93 | 5 in 10 days |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 479.22 | 2 in 10 weeks | 506.56 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 482.49 | 3 in 10 weeks | 503.13 | 3 in 10 weeks |
| Eager | 485.56 | 4 in 10 weeks | 499.95 | 5 in 10 weeks |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From LIN's daily swings (about 1.0% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
Big drop and big gain: among LIN's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| Highest analyst target | 580.00 +17.0% |
| All-time and 52-week closing high Jul 2, 2026 |
544.85 +9.9% |
| Mean analyst target | 543.04 +9.6% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 503.13 +1.5% |
| Now | 495.55 |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
492.70 -0.6% |
| 200-day average | 486.56 -1.8% |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 482.49 -2.6% |
| 50-day average | 478.01 -3.5% |
| Lowest analyst target | 400.00 -19.3% |
| 52-week closing low Dec 8, 2025 |
385.58 -22.2% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 34 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.