Growth Metrics

Cardinal Health (CAH) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Cardinal Health's FCF Margin history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.85% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Margin rose 174.0% year-over-year to 0.85%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 2.25%, up 247.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.83%, 60.0% down from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin for Q4 2025 was 0.85% at Cardinal Health, down from 1.35% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 6.0% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 3.32% in Q3 2024.
  • The 5-year median for FCF Margin is 1.1% (2022), against an average of 1.14%.
  • The largest annual shift saw FCF Margin plummeted -479bps in 2023 before it surged 533bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 2.47% in 2021, then tumbled by -60bps to 0.99% in 2022, then surged by 86bps to 1.85% in 2023, then tumbled by -148bps to 0.9% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 194bps to 0.85% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CAH's FCF Margin are 0.85% (Q4 2025), 1.35% (Q3 2025), and 2.15% (Q2 2025).