Growth Metrics

Cardinal Health (CAH) Return on Equity (2017 - 2025)

Cardinal Health's Return on Equity history spans 15 years, with the latest figure at 0.6% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Equity fell 13.0% year-over-year to 0.6%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.6%, down 13.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.54%, 26.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Equity for Q4 2025 was 0.6% at Cardinal Health, roughly flat from 0.6% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Equity topped out at 1.18% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 6.17% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Equity is 0.19% (2023), against an average of 0.27%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Equity tumbled -704bps in 2022 before it soared 595bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Equity shows it stood at 0.46% in 2021, then soared by 37bps to 0.63% in 2022, then plummeted by -131bps to 0.2% in 2023, then crashed by -132bps to 0.46% in 2024, then fell by -29bps to 0.6% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CAH's Return on Equity are 0.6% (Q4 2025), 0.6% (Q3 2025), and 0.56% (Q2 2025).