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

Cardinal Health's Return on Invested Capital history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 1.08% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 22.0% year-over-year to 1.08%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 1.08%, down 22.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.44%, 5.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 1.08% at Cardinal Health, down from 1.1% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 10.77% in Q2 2022 and bottomed at 6.36% in Q3 2024.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.29% (2021), against an average of 0.8%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Invested Capital surged 1058bps in 2022 before it crashed -1250bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.82% in 2021, then surged by 126bps to 0.22% in 2022, then plummeted by -230bps to 0.28% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 556bps to 1.29% in 2024, then fell by -17bps to 1.08% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CAH's Return on Invested Capital are 1.08% (Q4 2025), 1.1% (Q3 2025), and 0.32% (Q2 2025).