Cardinal Health Inc (CAH): Today's Featured Services Winner
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) pushed the Services sector higher today making it today's featured services winner. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, Cardinal Health rose $1.39 (2.8%) to $51.06 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2,192,649 shares of Cardinal Health exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,594,300 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $49.68-$51.09 after having opened the day at $49.72 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $49.67. Other companies within the Services sector that increased today were:
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), up 16.0%,
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), up 9.7%,
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), up 8.7% and
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), up 8.1%.
Cardinal Health, Inc., a healthcare services company, provides pharmaceutical and medical products and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Pharmaceutical and Medical. Cardinal Health has a market cap of $17.0 billion and is part of the wholesale industry. Shares are up 20.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Cardinal Health a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Cardinal Health
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, increase in net income and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
- You can view the full Cardinal Health Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 27.4%,
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), down 15.4%,
Digital Domain Media Group
(
DDMGQ
), down 13.7% and
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), down 13.7% , were all laggards within the services sector with
(
) being today's services sector laggard.
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iShares Dow Jones US Cons Services
(
) while those bearish on the services sector could consider
ProShares Ultra Short Consumer Sers
(
).
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