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Cardinal Health (CAH) Competitors

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$152.41 -0.90 (-0.59%)
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CAH vs. MCK, COR, HSIC, PDCO, OMI, HLF, NUS, COSM, HWH, and MEDS

Should you be buying Cardinal Health stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cardinal Health include McKesson (MCK), Cencora (COR), Henry Schein (HSIC), Patterson Companies (PDCO), Owens & Minor (OMI), Herbalife (HLF), Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS), Cosmos Health (COSM), HWH International (HWH), and TRxADE HEALTH (MEDS).

Cardinal Health vs.

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) and McKesson (NYSE:MCK) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment, institutional ownership and valuation.

Cardinal Health currently has a consensus price target of $146.43, suggesting a potential downside of 3.92%. McKesson has a consensus price target of $686.69, suggesting a potential downside of 3.32%. Given McKesson's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe McKesson is more favorable than Cardinal Health.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cardinal Health
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.71
McKesson
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.87

McKesson has higher revenue and earnings than Cardinal Health. Cardinal Health is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McKesson, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cardinal Health$222.29B0.16$852M$6.4123.78
McKesson$359.05B0.25$3.00B$25.8327.50

McKesson has a net margin of 0.82% compared to Cardinal Health's net margin of 0.59%. Cardinal Health's return on equity of -59.57% beat McKesson's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cardinal Health0.59% -59.57% 4.17%
McKesson 0.82%-181.26%5.34%

McKesson received 51 more outperform votes than Cardinal Health when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 74.28% of users gave McKesson an outperform vote while only 71.49% of users gave Cardinal Health an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Cardinal HealthOutperform Votes
928
71.49%
Underperform Votes
370
28.51%
McKessonOutperform Votes
979
74.28%
Underperform Votes
339
25.72%

Cardinal Health has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, McKesson has a beta of 0.53, suggesting that its share price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

87.2% of Cardinal Health shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.1% of McKesson shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Cardinal Health shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of McKesson shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, McKesson had 8 more articles in the media than Cardinal Health. MarketBeat recorded 39 mentions for McKesson and 31 mentions for Cardinal Health. Cardinal Health's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat McKesson's score of 1.41 indicating that Cardinal Health is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cardinal Health
28 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
McKesson
35 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Cardinal Health pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. McKesson pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.4%. Cardinal Health pays out 31.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. McKesson pays out 11.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Cardinal Health has raised its dividend for 29 consecutive years and McKesson has raised its dividend for 17 consecutive years. Cardinal Health is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

McKesson beats Cardinal Health on 16 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CAH vs. The Competition

MetricCardinal HealthDrugs, proprietaries, & sundries IndustryMedical SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$36.38B$22.40B$5.33B$19.30B
Dividend Yield1.31%1.33%5.21%3.83%
P/E Ratio28.4312.6426.7134.53
Price / Sales0.169.77386.0834.83
Price / Cash12.0912.9538.2517.51
Price / Book-12.6132.956.774.69
Net Income$852M$785.39M$3.23B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.47%-0.77%1.80%-1.74%
1 Month Performance14.01%8.83%11.10%7.50%
1 Year Performance58.23%-8.47%17.11%4.15%

Cardinal Health Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CAH
Cardinal Health
4.6496 of 5 stars
$152.41
-0.6%
$146.43
-3.9%
+58.2%$36.38B$222.29B28.4346,500Positive News
MCK
McKesson
4.3633 of 5 stars
$723.81
-0.1%
$686.69
-5.1%
+27.4%$90.56B$359.05B33.1475,000Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
Insider Trade
COR
Cencora
4.5185 of 5 stars
$291.85
+0.6%
$301.18
+3.2%
+33.8%$56.59B$638.56M41.5142,000Positive News
HSIC
Henry Schein
3.4885 of 5 stars
$71.69
-0.5%
$79.30
+10.6%
-1.5%$8.73B$12.67B29.5022,000Positive News
PDCO
Patterson Companies
1.3675 of 5 stars
$31.33
flat
$26.57
-15.2%
N/A$2.77B$6.51B18.327,700News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
OMI
Owens & Minor
4.7921 of 5 stars
$7.04
-4.6%
$12.50
+77.6%
-61.1%$543.88M$10.72B-10.8322,500Positive News
HLF
Herbalife
4.5012 of 5 stars
$6.98
-1.1%
$11.50
+64.8%
-38.3%$710.89M$4.95B2.8010,100Analyst Downgrade
NUS
Nu Skin Enterprises
3.087 of 5 stars
$7.45
-1.7%
$6.88
-7.7%
-46.2%$370.44M$1.68B-2.5313,400Positive News
COSM
Cosmos Health
2.543 of 5 stars
$0.42
-1.9%
N/A-36.7%$11.49M$54.43M-0.17100Positive News
Gap Down
HWH
HWH International
N/A$1.55
+4.0%
N/A-77.3%$10.04M$1.25M0.00N/AGap Down
MEDS
TRxADE HEALTH
N/A$0.89
-1.0%
N/A-84.7%$1.25M$7.45M0.0050Gap Up

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This page (NYSE:CAH) was last updated on 5/23/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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