Linde plc (LIN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Linde plc ( LIN ) Q2 2026 Earnings Call July 31, 2026 9:00 AM EDT Company Participants Juan Pelaez - Vice President of Investor Relations Sanjiv Lamba - CEO & Chairman of the Board Matthew White - Executive VP & CFO Conference Call Participants Laurent Favre - BNP Paribas, Research Division Patrick Cunningham - Citigroup Inc., Research Division Patrick Fischer - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Vincent Andrews - Morgan Stanley, Research Division David Begleiter - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division Joshua Spector - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Matthew DeYoe - BofA Securities, Research Division Jeffrey Zekauskas - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division James Hooper - Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division Kevin McCarthy - Vertical Research Partners, LLC John McNulty - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Arun Viswanathan - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division Abigail Eberts - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Presentation Operator Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Linde Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call and Webcast.

Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

And I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Juan Pelaez, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. Juan Pelaez Vice President of Investor Relations Abby, thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for attending our 2026 second quarter earnings call and webcast. I'm Juan Pelaez, Head of Investor Relations, and I'm joined this morning by Sanjiv Lamba, Chief Executive Officer; and Matt White, Chief Financial Officer. Today's presentation materials are available on our website at linde.com in the Investors section. Please read the forward-looking statement disclosure on Page 2 of the slides and note that it applies to all statements made during this teleconference. The reconciliations of the adjusted numbers are in the appendix to this presentation. Sanjiv will provide some opening remarks, and then Matt will give