Growth Metrics

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

Cardinal Health's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.01% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales changed 0.0% year-over-year to 0.01%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.01%, changed 0.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.01%, 0.0% changed from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.01% at Cardinal Health, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.01% in Q1 2025 and bottomed at 0.03% in Q1 2022.
  • The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.0% (2025), against an average of 0.0%.
  • The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales dropped -3bps in 2021 before it rose 4bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.0% in 2021, then plummeted by -298bps to 0.0% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 401bps to 0.01% in 2023, then increased by 13bps to 0.01% in 2024, then fell by -1bps to 0.01% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for CAH's Return on Sales are 0.01% (Q4 2025), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.0% (Q2 2025).