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Industrial Gases

8 companies across the library’s three pools, one row each. The columns are the line items this kind of business is read on; each header names its basis, and the margins and returns are medians over each company’s readable record — the through-cycle level, never one year’s print. Rows open largest first by latest-year revenue, and every column sorts both ways — the re-ordering is the reader’s own act, and a sorted view keeps its order in the address bar. The company stays in view as the columns scroll. A dash is a figure that could not be read; n/a is one that does not apply to that member; both sit at the back of a sorted column.

As a group: median revenue $2.1B; median gross margin 22.9%; median operating margin 8.9%; median owner earnings $22M; median return on invested capital 8.9%; 0 of 8 hold net cash. Medians of this table’s own columns, over the members each applies to · data as of July 9, 2026.

Pick two to four to weigh side by side. Compare these →
latest fiscal year, USD median over the record median over the record op. cash − maintenance capex · latest FY, USD after tax · median over the record debt − cash & ST investments · latest FY, USD
LIN Linde plc Industrial Gases $34.0B21.3%$6.6B7.6%$21.9B
APD Air Products and Chemicals Inc. Industrial Gases $12.0B30.7%20.5%$1.7B11.2%$15.8B
TROX Tronox Holdings Industrial Gases $2.9B22.9%7.1%($281M)2.5%$3.0B
VHI Valhi Inc. Industrial Gases $2.1B22.1%10.1%($82M)$375M
MTX Minerals Technologies Inc. Industrial Gases $2.1B25.0%11.8%$87M8.9%$629M
KRO Kronos Worldwide Inc Industrial Gases $1.9B20.3%7.1%($40M)10.0%$582M
LXU LSB Industries Inc. Industrial Gases $615M4.9%-4.4%$18M-2.0%$293M
LXFR Luxfer Holdings PLC Industrial Gases $385M23.2%7.7%$26M9.7%$31M

Every figure is recomputed from the company’s own SEC or EDINET filings, the same way as on its page; the columns name facts, weigh nothing, and form no rank.