Cardinal Health Inc (CAH): Today's Featured Wholesale Laggard
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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 $14.06 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 1.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Cardinal Health a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Cardinal Health as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
- You can view the full Cardinal Health Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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