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Net margin at other companies

Eli Lilly logo
Eli LillyLLY
35%+12.3pp
McKesson logo
McKessonMCK
1.2%+0.3pp
Cencora logo
CencoraCOR
0.6%-0.1pp
Medline, Inc.
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Medline, Inc. MDLN
4.6%+2.7pp
CVS Health logo
CVS HealthCVS
0.7%-0.7pp
Abbott logo
AbbottABT
13.9%-18.0pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$60.9B+11.1%
Gross profit$2.5B+17.7%
Operating income$509.0M-30.3%
Net income$399.0M-21.2%
EPS (diluted)$1.69-19.5%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$3.9B+18.4%
Total debt$8.9B+16.1%
Total equity-$2.8B+3.9%
Total assets$56.7B+13.7%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$1.8B-37.6%
CapEx$146.0M+15.9%
Free cash flow$1.7B-40.0%

Valuation

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Market cap$53B+49.4%
Enterprise value$57.98B+45.4%
P/E34.1×+11.3×
P/S0.2×+0.1×

Profitability

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Gross margin3.8%+0.2pp
Operating margin0.9%-0.1pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity37.4%
Debt / equity4.1×
Current ratio0.9×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Cardinal Health’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Cardinal Health’s 10-Q, filed April 30, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Cardinal Health's net margin?
Cardinal Health (CAH) reported net margin of 0.6% in Q1 2026.
How has Cardinal Health's net margin changed year-over-year?
Cardinal Health's net margin decreased by 11.5% year-over-year, from 0.7% to 0.6%.
What is the long-term trend for Cardinal Health's net margin?
Over 2 years (2021 to 2025), Cardinal Health's net margin has grown at a -1.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 2.6% to 2.6%.
What does net margin mean?
The share of every sales dollar that becomes bottom-line profit.
How do you interpret net margin?
Higher is better, but net margin mixes operating performance with financing and tax effects and one-off items — read it alongside operating margin to separate the operating story from the rest.
How does net margin compare across companies?
Comparable across peers but sensitive to leverage and tax structure; two operationally identical firms can show different net margins purely from financing.