NYSE:CAHCardinal Health Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cardinal Health's stock was trading at $48.65 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CAH shares have increased by 1.5% and is now trading at $49.36. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cardinal Health in the last year. There are currently 8 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, August 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Cardinal Health Inc (NYSE:CAH) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May, 11th. The company reported $1.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.43 by $0.19. The firm earned $39.16 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $37.04 billion. Cardinal Health had a positive return on equity of 69.23% and a negative net margin of 2.71%. Cardinal Health's quarterly revenue was up 11.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.59 earnings per share. View Cardinal Health's earnings history.

Cardinal Health declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, May 11th. Investors of record on Wednesday, July 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.486 per share on Wednesday, July 15th. This represents a $1.94 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.94%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, June 30th. This is an increase from Cardinal Health's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View Cardinal Health's dividend history.

Cardinal Health announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase program on Thursday, November 8th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 6.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's management believes its stock is undervalued.

Cardinal Health updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Monday, May, 11th. The company provided EPS guidance of $5.20-5.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.00.

11 brokers have issued 12-month target prices for Cardinal Health's shares. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $68.00. On average, they anticipate Cardinal Health's stock price to reach $57.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 16.5% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Cardinal Health.

News coverage about CAH stock has been trending neutral this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press 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 daily sentiment score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 4,120,000 shares, an increase of 11.1% from the June 15th total of 3,710,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,580,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.6 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Cardinal Health's Current Options Chain.

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

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

Cardinal Health's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (0.20%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.11%), Contravisory Investment Management Inc. (0.03%), Cypress Capital Group (0.03%), State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.02%) and DNB Asset Management AS (0.02%). 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 Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Exane Derivatives, DNB Asset Management AS, Birch Capital Management LLC, Rockland Trust Co., Bangor Savings Bank, and Murphy Middleton Hinkle & Parker Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for Cardinal Health.

CAH stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Contravisory Investment Management Inc., Cypress Capital Group, Forte Capital LLC ADV, Canandaigua National Corp, Park National Corp OH, Thomasville National Bank, and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. View insider buying and selling activity 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 $49.36.

Cardinal Health has a market capitalization of $14.41 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.

The official website for Cardinal Health is 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]