Bringing the fundamentals into focus…
Back to Cardinal Health, Inc.
How Cardinal Health, Inc. stacks up
CAH · against 58 other Healthcare companies of similar size
Profitability
85/ 100
Above the middle of the pack.
Ranked #25 of 59 · scores higher than 57% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score16 peers with a profitability score of 80–89, including CAH · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 85?
Weighted metrics compared with all Healthcare companies.Mainly thanks to its return on invested capital, which is stronger than most Healthcare peers.
- a thinner operating margin: weaker than 65% of peers. Operating margin: 1.0% vs peer median 7.1%
- Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 3.0% vs peer median 1.7%
- a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 99% of peers. Return on invested capital: 180.0% vs peer median 4.7%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = CAH, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | CAH | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 55 reported | 180.0% | 11.5% | 98% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 57 reported | 1.0% | 20.5% | 7% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 57 reported | 3.0% | 6.2% | 20% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 52 reported | Not reported | 13.7% | — | — | Context only |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 59 reported | 3.8% | 59.8% | 5% | Context only |
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around CAH| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11.26T JPY (≈$76.6B) | 99 | 72 | |
| 1 | 52.9B USD | 99 | 57 | |
| 3 | 8.24T JPY (≈$56.0B) | 98 | 75 | |
| 4 | 31.3B USD | 97 | 63 | |
| 4 | 34.0B USD | 97 | 49 | |
| 21 | 4.61T JPY (≈$31.3B) | 87 | 76 | |
| 21 | 116.5B USD | 87 | 57 | |
| 21 | 52.7B EUR (≈$58.0B) | 87 | 71 | |
| 24 | 49.5B USD | 86 | 53 | |
| 25 | 58.6B USD | 85 | 52 | |
| 25 | 100.2B USD | 85 | 68 | |
| 27 | 43.30T KRW (≈$31.2B) | 84 | 68 | |
| 28 | 54.9B USD | 83 | 59 | |
| 29 | 6.17T JPY (≈$42.0B) | 81 | 70 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score