CAH

Cardinal Health, Inc. ·NYSE·Healthcare
234.20 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Structural Score: displayed 0, underlying value -6.5
34.5%
Brown Bear Score
7.3%
Business Conviction Score
58.5%
Position Health Score
25.5%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +60.1% · range 146.04–240.26

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 3.5%
OCF / assets 4.5%
FCF / revenue 1.1%
Gross margin 3.8%
ROIC 16.3%
Forward P/E 16.9

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +37.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-28 · consensus EPS 2.90

Q1 23 revenue: 50.49bnQ1 23 net income: 345.00mQ1 23 EPS: 1.34Q2 23 revenue: 53.45bnQ2 23 net income: -64.00mQ2 23 EPS: -0.24Q2 23Q3 23 revenue: 54.76bnQ3 23 net income: 5.00mQ3 23 EPS: 0.02Q4 23 revenue: 57.45bnQ4 23 net income: 353.00mQ4 23 EPS: 1.43Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 54.91bnQ1 24 net income: 258.00mQ1 24 EPS: 1.05Q2 24 revenue: 59.71bnQ2 24 net income: 236.00mQ2 24 EPS: 0.96Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 52.28bnQ3 24 net income: 416.00mQ3 24 EPS: 1.70Q4 24 revenue: 55.26bnQ4 24 net income: 400.00mQ4 24 EPS: 1.65Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 54.88bnQ1 25 net income: 506.00mQ1 25 EPS: 2.10Q2 25 revenue: 60.16bnQ2 25 net income: 239.00mQ2 25 EPS: 0.99Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 64.01bnQ3 25 net income: 450.00mQ3 25 EPS: 1.88Q4 25 revenue: 65.63bnQ4 25 net income: 467.00mQ4 25 EPS: 1.97Q4 25

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-0.24–2.10, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q4 25. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2025-12-31 65.63bn +18.8% 467.00m 1.97 2.63 +9.4% 2026-02-05
2025-09-30 64.01bn +22.4% 450.00m 1.88 2.55 +15.9% 2025-10-30
2025-06-30 (derived) 60.16bn +0.8% 239.00m 0.99 2025-08-12
2025-03-31 54.88bn -0.1% 506.00m 2.10 2025-05-01

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±5.2%
On an ordinary two days ±1.2% — filings move it 4.4× as much
Direction 8 up, 3 down over 11 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +12.8% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-11-04: price +7.0%Q4 22 revenue +13.2% year on yearQ4 22 filed 2023-02-02: price +3.9%Q4 22Q1 23 revenue +12.6% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-05-04: price +1.9%Q3 23 revenue +10.4% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-11-03: price +8.4%Q3 23Q4 23 revenue +11.6% year on yearQ4 23 filed 2024-02-01: price -5.2%Q1 24 revenue +8.8% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-05-02: price -3.2%Q1 24Q3 24 revenue -4.5% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-11-01: price +3.1%Q4 24 revenue -3.8% year on yearQ4 24 filed 2025-01-30: price -3.2%Q4 24Q1 25 revenue -0.1% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-05-01: price +5.8%Q3 25 revenue +22.4% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-30: price +16.0%Q3 25Q4 25 revenue +18.8% year on yearQ4 25 filed 2026-02-05: price +9.4%

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2025-12-31 2026-02-05 +18.8% +9.4% +0.0%
2025-09-30 2025-10-30 +22.4% +16.0% +9.3%
2025-03-31 2025-05-01 -0.1% +5.8% -0.8%
2024-12-31 2025-01-30 -3.8% -3.2% +7.5%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 237.0M as at 2025-12-31
Change over 1 year -2.5%
Change over 3 years -9.2%
Public float $28.37bn as at 2024-12-31 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 215.61 — 235.33
Protective stop 210.02 (Atr, 6.8% risk)
Support 232.42 (2 touches, 0.8% away)
Resistance 243.00 (3.8% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 0.8% above 232.42, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 3.8% below 243.00, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 6.8% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice INSIDE the cloud | periods 5/15/30 (58% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL (fresh up cross, 4d ago) | cloud twist BEAR (fresh down, 1d ago)
Cloud thickness57% percentile
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading inside its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 233.60 to 239.34. Inside the band those averages disagree with each other, so the indicator is not saying much either way. Its shorter-term averages point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days +1.8%
63 days +28.3%
126 days +6.3%
252 days +48.5%
Below 252d high2.5%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension is still moving away from fair trend; chase risk is elevated.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width9.1% of price
Recent tightest7.3% (6 sessions ago, narrower than 90.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.24×
Band 220.84 — 241.83

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 9% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 90% of the time. When a stock goes quiet like this, its next move tends to look big by comparison. But quiet says nothing about which way it will go: Brown Bear tested calm-before-a-move as a reason to buy, and it did not work.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 230.03–240.262026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

CAH: no binary-event flag. Near IV 29%, far IV 30% (ratio 0.98), implied move 3.7%.

Implied volatility 29% near (9d) · 30% far (128d)
Term structure 0.98× near/far
Historical volatility 25%
Implied vs historical 1.17×
Implied move ±3.7% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.46×
Skew Call Skew (0.92×)
Call wall 240.00 (+2.5% away)
Put wall 220.00 (-6.0% away)
Gamma pin 240.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.7% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 60.8/100; Positive Rotation.

Rotation health 60.8
Rotation strength 53.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Improving 96.8 110.5
Stock vs SPY Improving 91.0 111.6
Sector vs SPY Improving 86.4 102.1

Direction of travel: South-East / trend strong but momentum cooling

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+5.0)
  • ROIC quality: 16.3% (+3.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 1.1% (+0.3)
  • FCF margin improving by -0.6 pts (+-1.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.016) (+1.0)
  • Track 2: MACD histogram state (0.31) (+5.0)
  • Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+15.0)
  • Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+5.0)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.05 (+4.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 36.1 (+15.0)
  • Track 2: ADX 32.7 and falling (+8.0)
  • Track 2: relative momentum rank 0.82 (+10.7)
  • Track 2: price above EMA20 by 0.4% (+0.4)
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 1.1% (+2.9)
  • Track 2: VPT strength 0.02 (+0.5)
  • Track 2: price above EMA50 by 3.2% (+2.5)
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 1.9% (+4.4)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.63 (+5.1)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.70x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 60.0, 5-day change -1.8
  • Below-average Altman Z-score (1.79)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: Z-Score 1.79 below the 1.8 insolvency-risk floor and structural score 0.0/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.