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SELL LIN · Shelley M Capito

Linde plc Ordinary Share

B

Deliberate position with a committee link

Signal score 62 / 100 — how much this looks like a deliberate, informed position rather than routine portfolio activity.
Inside their committee's jurisdiction
32/32
Isolated decision, not a bulk rebalance
13/22
Small, thinly-followed company
Nobody needs inside information to buy a mega-cap.
1/10
Committee chair or ranking member
8/8
A name they had never held before
A first purchase is a decision; the ninth purchase of the same holding is a standing order.
8/8
Member's own account
0/8
Unusually large for this member
Against their own median trade, not an absolute threshold - and capped, because trades beyond 3x did worse, not better.
0/6
Position size
0/3
Leveraged instrument (option)
0/3

A high grade is not an allegation. Every input is public, and buying into an industry you work on daily is ordinary expertise. What the trade actually returned is deliberately excluded from this score and shown separately below.

It is also not a forecast. Measured across every settled trade, A-graded ones did not beat E-graded ones to any significant degree — the method page prints the table. This score says a trade looks like a decision rather than administration, and nothing more.

The filing it came from

filed in 27 days Within the 30-day notification window.

No matching purchase on file. This member has no earlier disclosed purchase of LIN in this account, so the position was almost certainly opened before these records begin in 2019. About 45% of sales are in this situation.

This is a sale, and the strategy does not act on it. It records the member closing a position; it is not a short signal and not an instruction to sell. Exiting when members disclose selling, rather than at twelve months, cut in-remit alpha from +6.76% to +3.57% — a cost of 6.50 points on the trades it changed. See the method.

This filing disclosed 10 transactions in total, of which 9 share this trade date (17 Oct 2022).

Filed 13 Nov 2022 · source PDF

Same day: UNHJPMMSFTLOWJNJBLKAAPLAFL

Price

Entry
Latest
$488.19
12 Aug 2026
Since entry
price only

52-week range $386.85 – $546.64. The marker is the entry: the first market open after this filing became public.

Linde plc

Linde plc operates as an industrial gas company worldwide. The company offers atmospheric gases, including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and rare gases; and process gases, such as hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, electronic gases, specialty gases, and acetylene. It also engages in the design and construction of turnkey process plants for third-party customers, as well as for its gas businesses, including…

Market cap
$221.0B
1yr target
$547
+14.1% from $479.43
Analysts
25
buy
P/E
30.9
beta 0.73
SectorBasic Materials
IndustrySpecialty Chemicals
Analyst range $400 – $612
Employees64,649
InstrumentST
Jurisdiction tags materials

https://www.linde.com

Inside this member's remit. Their committees cover defenseenergyhealthcareindustrialsmaterialstechnologytelecomtransportutilities

Expressing this with options

An illustration, not a recommendation: the nearest listed expiry to a twelve-month horizon, struck near the money. Chains are live — Yahoo publishes no historical chains, so this is priced today, not when the filing was made, and the move it describes may already have happened.

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Outcome

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Measured from the first open after disclosure — the earliest anyone reading this could have acted. The highlighted now row sits at its true place in the sequence, so where it falls tells you how long the position has run. The last 9 rows are blank because those windows have not closed yet: this trade was entered —, so anything longer than that is still running.

Other congressional trades in LIN

GradeDateMemberSideAmount
E 27 Mar 2026 Alan Armstrong sale $15,001 - $50,000
E 26 Mar 2026 Thomas H. Kean Jr purchase $1,001 - $15,000
D 18 Feb 2026 Thomas H. Kean Jr purchase $1,001 - $15,000
E 09 Jan 2026 Gilbert Cisneros purchase $1,001 - $15,000
E 19 Dec 2025 Gilbert Cisneros purchase $1,001 - $15,000
D 23 Sep 2025 Valerie Hoyle sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 16 Jul 2025 Lisa McClain sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 24 Jun 2025 Lisa McClain purchase $1,001 - $15,000
C 12 May 2025 Jefferson Shreve sale $50,001 - $100,000
D 07 May 2025 Jonathan Jackson sale $50,001 - $100,000
E 11 Apr 2025 Dan Newhouse sale partial $1,001 - $15,000
D 08 Apr 2025 Rob Bresnahan sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 07 Apr 2025 Jared Moskowitz purchase $1,001 - $15,000
C 07 Apr 2025 Jefferson Shreve purchase $50,001 - $100,000
E 24 Mar 2025 George Whitesides sale $100,001 - $250,000
D 25 Feb 2025 Rob Bresnahan sale $1,001 - $15,000
C 24 Feb 2025 Jefferson Shreve sale $15,001 - $50,000
D 13 Jan 2025 Rob Bresnahan sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 08 Nov 2024 Jared Moskowitz purchase $1,001 - $15,000
E 08 Nov 2024 Jared Moskowitz purchase $1,001 - $15,000
C 29 Oct 2024 Valerie Hoyle purchase $1,001 - $15,000
E 15 Oct 2024 Greg Landsman sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 04 Sep 2024 John James sale $1,001 - $15,000
E 05 Jul 2024 Jared Moskowitz purchase $1,001 - $15,000
E 05 Jul 2024 Jared Moskowitz purchase $1,001 - $15,000