Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) on Tuesday, plunged -0.08% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $112.32. Within the past 52 weeks, CAH’s price has moved between $90.19 and $116.05.
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Annual sales at Healthcare sector company grew by 9.33% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 1.39%. With a float of $241.29 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $244.00 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 48900 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 3.22%, operating margin of 0.71%, and the pretax margin is 0.53%.
Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Medical Distribution industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Cardinal Health, Inc. is 0.28%, while institutional ownership is 89.89%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 21 ’24, was worth 1,812,920. In this transaction Chief Legal/Compliance Officer of this company sold 16,573 shares at a rate of $109.39, taking the stock ownership to the 75,971 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 21 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 16,573 for $109.39, making the entire transaction worth $1,812,898.
Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) Performance Highlights and Predictions
As on 6/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 1.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 1.4) by 0.33. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.81 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 1.39% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 13.00% during the next five years compared to -5.30% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) Trading Performance Indicators
Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.56 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.12. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.35.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.47, a number that is poised to hit 1.62 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 8.45 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH)
Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) saw its 5-day average volume 1.33 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 2.08 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 33.18%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.65.
During the past 100 days, Cardinal Health, Inc.’s (CAH) raw stochastic average was set at 83.30%, which indicates a significant increase from 46.01% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 12.13% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 17.84% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $111.22, while its 200-day Moving Average is $105.34. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $112.78 in the near term. At $113.32, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $113.89. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $111.67, it is likely to go to the next support level at $111.10. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $110.56.
Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 27.16 billion based on 243,567K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 226,827 M and income totals 852,000 K. The company made 59,708 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 236,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
