NYSE:CAH - Cardinal 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 decreased by 8.8% and is now trading at $44.38. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

10 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 2 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, May 14th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Cardinal Health.

Cardinal Health Inc (NYSE:CAH) issued its earnings results on Thursday, February, 6th. The company reported $1.52 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.22 by $0.30. The business 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%. Cardinal Health's revenue was up 5.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.29 earnings per share. View Cardinal Health's earnings history.

Cardinal Health declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, February 11th. Shareholders 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 yield of 4.34%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend 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 of Directors has approved a share repurchase plan 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 purchase up to 6.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Cardinal Health updated 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 EPS estimate of $5.00.

10 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives 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 $56.88 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Cardinal Health.

Press coverage about CAH stock has trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Cardinal Health earned a coverage optimism score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days. View the latest news aboutCardinal Health.

Cardinal Health saw a drop in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 6,140,000 shares, a drop of 14.7% from the February 13th total of 7,200,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,770,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.2 days. Currently, 2.1% of the company's shares are sold short. View Cardinal Health's Current Options Chain.

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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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (7.38%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (5.92%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.68%), FMR LLC (2.14%), American International Group Inc. (1.97%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.70%). 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., Franklin Resources Inc., American International Group Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, and Assetmark 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 Norges Bank, Macquarie Group Ltd., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Public Sector Pension Investment Board, and First Trust Advisors LP. 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 $44.38.

Cardinal Health has a market capitalization of $12.95 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]