CAH
CARDINAL HEALTH INCEvidence as of 2026-09-30The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · CARDINAL HEALTH INC
Cardinal Health, Inc. operates as an integrated healthcare services and products company in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and internationally. It provides customized solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, physician offices, and patients in the home. The company operates in two segments, Pharmaceutical and Medical. The Pharmaceutical segme…
Management team
- Ms. Michelle D. Greene · Executive VP, Chief Information Officer & Customer Support ServicesFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Deborah L. Weitzman · Chief Executive Officer of Pharmaceutical & Specialty Solutions SegmentFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Ola M. Snow · Chief Human Resources OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Matt Sims · Vice President of Investor RelationsFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it, not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.3 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled. The rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed (+0.3 of a possible +2; was +0.3 before debate) · confidence high. Reported revenues rose from $ 52,277,000,000 for the fiscal quarter ended 30 September 2024 to $ 55,264,000,000 for the fiscal quarter ended 31 December 2024, $ 54,878,000,000 for the fiscal quarter ended 31 March 2025, $ 64,009,000,000 for the fiscal quarter ended 30 September 2025 and $ 65,627,000,000 for the fiscal quarter ended 31 December 2025. Gross profit increased from $ 1,902,000,000 to $ 2,397,000,000 across the same five quarters, with gross margins roughly in the 3.5%–3.9% range (about 3.64% → 3.51% → 3.87% → 3.62% → 3.65%).
Operating income and net income show mixed movement: operating income reported $ 568,000,000 (30 September 2024), $ 549,000,000 (31 December 2024), $ 730,000,000 (31 March 2025), $ 668,000,000 (30 September 2025) and $ 707,000,000 (31 December 2025), while net income ranged $ 416,000,000 → $ 400,000,000 → $ 506,000,000 → $ 450,000,000 → $ 467,000,000 across those same dates. Share counts trended down from 245,000,000 to 237,000,000 diluted and entity common shares outstanding were reported as 232,575,728 as of 31 July 2026.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
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Reported revenues increased from $52,277,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 30 September 2024 to $55,264,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 31 December 2024, then to $54,878,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 31 March 2025, and rose further to $64,009,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 30 September 2025 and $65,627,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 31 December 2025.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000721371-24-000121Gross profit moved from $1,902,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 30 September 2024 to $1,941,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 31 December 2024, $2,123,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 31 March 2025, $2,319,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 30 September 2025 and $2,397,000,000 in the fiscal quarter ended 31 December 2025.
XBRL companyfacts · 0000721371-24-000121Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
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A Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2026 was filed on 11 August 2026 and the filing record in this evidence is parsed and includes a primary document URL.
10-K filed 2026-08-11A Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2025 was filed on 12 August 2025 and is present in the provided evidence.
10-K filed 2025-08-12Reads the signal panel above (momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta) and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
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Institutional 13F-reported holdings total "$47.67B" as of 2026-06-30 (note 13F filings carry a 45-day reporting lag).
13F holdings · 1508 filers · as of 2026-06-30Top 5 reported 13F holders as of 2026-06-30 include BlackRock, Inc. ($6.29B), VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC ($3.63B), WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP ($3.53B), VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC ($3.26B), and STATE STREET CORP ($2.84B).
13F holdings · 1508 filers · as of 2026-06-30Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Several recent headlines focus on Cardinal Health’s involvement in at‑home healthcare and whether the company can leverage that trend.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-09-28The same at‑home healthcare theme appears in coverage from more than one outlet, with an article carrying the same title on finance.yahoo.com and zacks.com on 28 September 2026.
News · zacks.com · 2026-09-28weakened in debateReads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
Trailing free cash flow (FCF) for the twelve months shown is negative $483,000,000 and FCF per share is negative $2.038.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeNet cash provided by (used in) operating activities for the twelve months shown is negative $123,000,000 while payments to acquire property, plant and equipment were $360,000,000, which together correspond with the negative FCF.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
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The provided SEC-sourced fundamentals show multi-quarter top-line growth and rising gross profit alongside improving operating income and net income, which together present a company operating with expanding scale and profitability on a quarterly basis (evidence: company 10-K/10-Q figures — strong). Weighted-average diluted shares outstanding declined each quarter, and recurring repurchase activity is reported, which aligns with the reduction in share count and supports per-share metrics (evidence: repurchase and share counts in filings — moderate-to-strong). Liquidity appears healthy on a balance-sheet basis: cash exceeds long-term debt by roughly $2.35B and enterprise-value/EBITDA is 14.23 while trailing EBITDA is positive $3.495B (evidence: valuation and balance sheet figures — strong). Institutional ownership and multiple recent analyst buy/initiations in the street consensus, plus media coverage emphasizing the company’s strategic shift to specialty and at‑home healthcare, indicate meaningful market interest that complements the operational signals (evidence: 13F holdings and news items — moderate). These points mitigate concerns about negative trailing free cash flow and negative stockholders’ equity by showing operational profitability, improving cash buffers, and active capital-return behavior in the evidence set (negative FCF and negative equity are recorded but contextualized by cash > debt and positive EBITDA — mixed strength).
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.37
30 surviving claims rest on 14 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 30% of them, and 93% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence package rests on a moderate number of distinct sources, but a meaningful share of surviving claims comes from a relatively small set of contributors; that analyst concentration reduces how independently corroborated the read appears. The very high debate-survival rate means most points survived internal challenge, but source concentration and some analyst dependence suggest the set should carry cautious weight rather than strong, independent confirmation.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
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14 filings· 3 cited
SEC XBRL filings
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Read by Mercer+0.4 to the score
4 documents· 2 cited
SEC filing documents
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Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
2 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
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Read by Ellis+0.6 to the score
6 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
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Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
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Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
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1 record· 0 cited
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