How is Cardinal Health (CAH) doing?

Cardinal Health is a company in the medical, distribution industry, based in Dublin, OH, worth $55.6B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Middling

Cardinal Health shares are up 51% over the past year, 30 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Hot Hand. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 91st percentile on market beat, the 38th on staying power and the 84th on business growth. It appears on 8 of our dashboards.

$237.57+51% in a yearWorth $55.6B

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

CAH against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Cardinal Health +51%, the S&P 500 +16%.

CAHS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Hot Hand

BeatingErraticGrowingBought

Beating the market on a growing business with buyers adding, but its rank swings from week to week.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Hot Hand this month; Churning Winner before that.

Also Hot Hand (59 in all): CACI · RTX · TIGO · DXCM · GMED · WAB

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Aerospace-defense, 41 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Defense primes and steady-demand contractors.

CAH, past year+51%3 of 41 in the group

Rest of the group−1%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Cardinal Health is +51% over the past year, against −1% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 3rd of 41 in Aerospace-defense.

CAHRest of the group

Best in the groupCNC Centene+70%COKE Coca-Cola Consolidated+64%HUM Humana+45%

Worst in the groupPSN Parsons−50%ROL Rollins−45%AXON Axon Enterprise−42%

Its closest rivalsMCK McKesson+24%MCK McKesson+24%COR Cencora+4%

Aerospace-defense on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Cardinal Health typically moves 2.4% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 81% of large US stocks.

Typical day2.4%about $5.76 a share

Its usual2.4%about usual, 1.0× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5002.1×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±4.8%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−21%now 4% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks-16%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.3

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 2.35%

CAH on our dashboards

Every question where Cardinal Health appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CAH highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
Who beats estimates every quarter? Earnings	9512 in a row	27 of 60	Run 12 · EPS beats 12 of 12 · Sales beats 7 of 12
Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks	66Strong	55 of 60	Pressure 56 · 1Y +51%
Which stocks climb with the least drama? Leading stocks	95Smooth	8 of 60	Return per swing 1.52 · Return a year +38% · Volatility 25%
Which stocks hold up when the market falls? Leading stocks	91Holds up	45 of 60	Down capture -16% · Up capture 58% · Beta 0.33
Which companies grow earnings every year? Business quality	90Building	51 of 60	Years of growth 4 years · Growth, 5Y +28% a yr · Latest EPS 7.23
Whose cash flow backs up their earnings? Business quality	96Backed	16 of 60	3 years 233% · Last year 264% · Free cash flow $4.5B
Which stocks are cheapest on cash flow? Value	89Cheap	59 of 60	Cash yield 8.7% · Price / FCF 11.5× · Cash margin 2%
Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks	90Decades	41 of 60	Years raised 30 years · Growth, 5Y −5% a yr · Yield 0.9%

Go deeper on Stox

CAH’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see CAH’s full profile on Stox.

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