NYSE:CAH - Cardinal Health Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cardinal Health trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CAH."

Cardinal Health announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 11th. Investors of record on Wednesday, April 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.4811 per share on Wednesday, April 15th. This represents a $1.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.23%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 31st. This is a boost from Cardinal Health's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View Cardinal Health's Dividend History.

Cardinal Health declared that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Thursday, November 8th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 6.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Cardinal Health Inc (NYSE:CAH) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 6th. The company reported $1.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.22 by $0.30. The business earned $39.77 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $39.33 billion. Cardinal Health had a positive return on equity of 45.21% and a negative net margin of 2.81%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 5.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.29 earnings per share. View Cardinal Health's Earnings History.

Cardinal Health is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 6th. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.20-5.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.00.

9 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Cardinal Health's shares. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $68.00. On average, they anticipate Cardinal Health's share price to reach $58.57 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.8%. View Analyst Price Targets for Cardinal Health.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cardinal Health in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Cardinal Health.

Press coverage about CAH stock has been trending extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Cardinal Health earned a media sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 12,100,000 shares, a decrease of 9.0% from the January 15th total of 13,300,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,450,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 4.9 days. Approximately 4.2% of the company's shares are short sold. View Cardinal Health's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Cardinal Health include McKesson (MCK), AmerisourceBergen (ABC), Henry Schein (HSIC), Patterson Companies (PDCO) and Owens & Minor (OMI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Cardinal Health investors own include AT&T (T), AbbVie (ABBV), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), CVS Health (CVS), Becton Dickinson and (BDX), Pfizer (PFE), Chevron (CVX), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Gilead Sciences (GILD).

Cardinal Health's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (7.38%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.68%), FMR LLC (2.14%), American International Group Inc. (1.97%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (1.37%) and Franklin Resources Inc. (1.21%). Company insiders that own Cardinal Health stock include Jon L Giacomin and Stuart G Laws. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Cardinal Health.

CAH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including AQR Capital Management LLC, Franklin Resources Inc., American International Group Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Assetmark Inc. and State Street Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cardinal Health.

CAH stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, First Trust Advisors LP, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Schroder Investment Management Group and Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Cardinal Health.

Shares of CAH can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CAH stock can currently be purchased for approximately $59.62.

Cardinal Health has a market capitalization of $17.40 billion and generates $145.53 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.36 billion in net income (profit) each year or $5.28 on an earnings per share basis. Cardinal Health employs 31,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Cardinal Health.

The official website for Cardinal Health is http://www.cardinalhealth.com/.

Cardinal Health's mailing address is 7000 CARDINAL PLACE, DUBLIN OH, 43017. The company can be reached via phone at 614-757-5000 or via email at [email protected]