Cardinal Health (CAH) Operating Margin (2009 - 2026)

Cardinal Health has disclosed Operating Margin across 18 years of filings, most recently posting 0.84% for Q1 2026.

• Operating Margin for Q1 2026 came in at 0.84%, down 49.0% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was 0.92% (down 9.0% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was 1.02%, up 47.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin came in at 0.84% for Q1 2026 at Cardinal Health, down from 1.08% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 1.33% in Q1 2025 to a low of 0.22% in Q1 2022.
• The 5-year median for Operating Margin is 0.71% (2025), against an average of 0.62%.
• Peak annual rise in Operating Margin reached 192 bps in 2022, while the deepest fall reached 142 bps in 2022.
• Cardinal Health's Operating Margin stood at 0.17% in 2022, then soared by 626 bps to 0.88% in 2023, then increased by 13 bps to 0.99% in 2024, then gained by 8 bps to 1.08% in 2025, then fell by 22 bps to 0.84% in 2026.
• The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 0.84% (Q1 2026), 1.08% (Q4 2025), and 1.04% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.