Linde Reports First-Quarter 2025 Results - Seite 2
First-Quarter 2025 Results by Segment
Americas sales of $3,666 million were 3% higher versus prior-year quarter. Compared with first quarter 2024, underlying sales increased 4% driven by 3% higher pricing and 1% higher volumes, primarily in the electronics, chemicals & energy end markets. Operating profit of $1,137 million was 31.0% of sales, 40 basis points above prior year.
APAC (Asia Pacific) sales of $1,539 million were down 3% versus prior year. Compared with first quarter 2024, underlying sales were lower by 1% driven by stable pricing offset by 1% lower volumes, primarily in the metals & mining and manufacturing end markets. Operating profit of $451 million was 29.3% of sales, 120 basis points above prior year.
EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) sales of $2,031 million were down 3% versus prior year. Compared with first quarter 2024, underlying sales were 1% lower, driven by 2% higher pricing more than offset by 3% lower volumes, primarily in the metals & mining and chemicals & energy end markets. Operating profit of $722 million was 35.5% of sales, 260 basis points above prior year.
Linde Engineering sales were $565 million, 5% higher versus prior year, and operating profit was $114 million or 20.2% of sales. Order intake for the quarter was $516 million and third-party sale of equipment backlog was $3.3 billion.
Earnings Call
A teleconference on Linde’s first-quarter 2025 results is being held today at 9:00 am EDT.
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About Linde
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2024 sales of $33 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.
The company serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life-saving medical oxygen and high-purity & specialty gases for electronics. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.