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 stock has increased by 6.5% and is now trading at $51.80. 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) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, May, 11th. The company reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.43 by $0.19. The company had revenue of $39.16 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $37.04 billion. Cardinal Health had a positive return on equity of 69.23% and a negative net margin of 2.71%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 11.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business 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 3.75%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, June 30th. 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 of Directors has approved a stock buyback plan on Thursday, November 8th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase up to 6.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Cardinal Health issued an update on 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 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month 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 $57.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 11.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Cardinal Health.

News headlines about CAH stock have been trending negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cardinal Health earned a media sentiment score of -2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage 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 stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news about Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health saw a decrease in short interest in June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,710,000 shares, a decrease of 7.3% from the May 31st total of 4,000,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,830,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.3 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's 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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Thomasville National Bank (0.01%), Birch Capital Management LLC (0.00%) and Park National Corp OH (0.00%). 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 Birch Capital Management LLC. View insider buying and selling activity for Cardinal Health.

CAH stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Park National Corp OH, and Thomasville National Bank. 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 $51.80.

Cardinal Health has a market capitalization of $15.13 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]