About Cardinal Health, Inc.
Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) is a Industrials company in the Wholesale-Drugs, Proprietaries & Druggists' Sundries industry with a market capitalisation of $56.1B. The stock trades at 36.38x trailing earnings and yields 0.86%.
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Wholesale-Drugs, Proprietaries & Druggists' Sundries
- Market cap
- $56.1B
- P/E ratio
- 36.38
- EPS (TTM)
- $7.23
- Revenue (TTM)
- $254.2B
- Free cash flow
- $4.5B
- Profit margin
- 0.7%
- Dividend yield
- 0.86%
- Shares outstanding
- 232.6M
Financial health: Weak4.4/10
3 strengths, 4 concerns. Weakest points: current ratio, return on equity, gross margin and 1 more.
- Current ratio: 0.88 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.88x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: -59.5% (Concern, benchmark > 15%) — Earns -59.5% on shareholder equity, well short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 3.8% (Concern, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 3.8% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, well short of the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 0.7% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 0.7% of revenue into profit, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $4.5B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $4.5B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 14.2% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 14.2% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 9.8% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 9.8% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Payout ratio: 28.6% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 28.6% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.