NYSE:CAHCardinal Health Stock Price, Forecast & News

Cardinal Health's stock was trading at $48.65 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CAH shares have increased by 6.9% and is now trading at $51.99.
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11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Cardinal Health in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Cardinal Health is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 5th 2020.
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Cardinal Health Inc (NYSE:CAH) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 6th. The company reported $1.04 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.88 by $0.16. The company earned $36.70 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $36.82 billion. Cardinal Health had a positive return on equity of 69.23% and a negative net margin of 2.71%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 1.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.11 EPS.
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Cardinal Health declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, May 11th. Shareholders 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 yield of 3.74%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, June 30th. This is a positive change from Cardinal Health's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48.
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Cardinal Health announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program on Thursday, November 8th 2018, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to purchase up to 6.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are often a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

Cardinal Health updated its FY21 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.25-5.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $5.25.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Cardinal Health's stock. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $68.00. On average, they expect Cardinal Health's share price to reach $58.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.9% from the stock's current price.
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Media headlines about CAH stock have been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring 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 five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Cardinal Health earned a news sentiment score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.
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Cardinal Health saw a increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 5,100,000 shares, an increase of 8.5% from the July 15th total of 4,700,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,400,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.8% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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Some companies that are related to Cardinal Health include McKesson (MCK), AmerisourceBergen (ABC), Henry Schein (HSIC), Patterson Companies (PDCO) and Owens & Minor (OMI).
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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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include LSV Asset Management (1.06%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (1.03%), Prudential PLC (0.75%), Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.63%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.59%) and ProShare Advisors LLC (0.56%). Company insiders that own Cardinal Health stock include Jon L Giacomin and Stuart G Laws.
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CAH stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including ProShare Advisors LLC, Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Miller Howard Investments Inc. NY, Alps Advisors Inc., CWM LLC, First Trust Advisors LP, Pzena Investment Management LLC, and Exane Derivatives.
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CAH stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including PGGM Investments, Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Prudential PLC, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Conning Inc., Mackay Shields LLC, and Russell Investments Group Ltd..
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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 $51.99.

Cardinal Health has a market capitalization of $15.18 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]