Cardinal Health (CAH) FCF Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Cardinal Health has disclosed FCF Payout Ratio across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 0.07 for Q1 2026.

• FCF Payout Ratio for Q1 2026 came in at 0.07, up 63.9% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.0 (down 97.63% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 0.01, down 95.77% from the prior year.
• FCF Payout Ratio came in at 0.07 for Q1 2026 at Cardinal Health, down from 0.23 in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, FCF Payout Ratio ranged from a high of 0.29 in Q3 2023 to a low of 3.02 in Q3 2022.
• The 5-year median for FCF Payout Ratio is 0.06 (2022), against an average of 0.25.
• Across the five-year window, FCF Payout Ratio sank 1490.6% in 2023 and jumped 189.19% in 2025, its largest moves.
• Cardinal Health's FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.25 in 2022, then plunged by 54.16% to 0.12 in 2023, then tumbled by 323.9% to 0.26 in 2024, then jumped by 189.19% to 0.23 in 2025, then plunged by 68.72% to 0.07 in 2026.
• The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.07 (Q1 2026), 0.23 (Q4 2025), and 0.15 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.