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Cardinal Health (CAH) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Cardinal Health's Return on Capital Employed history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.19% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed changed 0.0% year-over-year to 0.19%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.19%, changed 0.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.22%, 8.0% up from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed for Q4 2025 was 0.19% at Cardinal Health, up from 0.17% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.2% in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 0.07% in Q3 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Capital Employed is 0.08% (2023), against an average of 0.09%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Capital Employed increased 28bps in 2021 before it dropped -16bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.01% in 2021, then tumbled by -179bps to 0.01% in 2022, then surged by 3596bps to 0.18% in 2023, then increased by 10bps to 0.19% in 2024, then fell by -2bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CAH's Return on Capital Employed are 0.19% (Q4 2025), 0.17% (Q3 2025), and 0.18% (Q2 2025).