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. Stockholders 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.50%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, March 31st. This is a positive change from Cardinal Health's previous quarterly dividend of $0.48. View Cardinal Health's Dividend History.

Cardinal Health announced that its board has initiated a share buyback 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 reacquire up to 6.4% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Cardinal Health Inc (NYSE:CAH) announced its earnings results on Thursday, February, 6th. The company reported $1.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.22 by $0.30. The company had revenue of $39.77 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $39.33 billion. Cardinal Health had a negative net margin of 2.81% and a positive return on equity of 45.21%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 5.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $1.29 EPS. 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 earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $5.20-5.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $5.00.

9 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices 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 $58.57 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 6.5% from the stock's current price. 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.

Media stories about CAH stock have trended extremely negative on Thursday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 -4.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news 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 company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health saw a drop in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 12,100,000 shares, a drop of 9.0% from the January 15th total of 13,300,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,450,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.9 days. Approximately 4.2% of the company's stock are sold short. 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 AbbVie (ABBV), AT&T (T), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), CVS Health (CVS), Becton Dickinson and (BDX), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Pfizer (PFE), Verizon Communications (VZ) and PepsiCo (PEP).

Cardinal Health's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (7.38%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.68%), FMR LLC (2.14%), American International Group Inc. (1.97%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.70%) and Pzena Investment Management LLC (1.37%). 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 Janus Henderson Group PLC, 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 and Schroder Investment Management Group. 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 $55.01.

Cardinal Health has a market capitalization of $16.05 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]