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Cardinal Health Inc (CAH) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for CAH, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.26 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How CAH has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.26 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Cardinal Health Inc moved 0.26% on average · correlation 0.08 · higher than 25% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.14 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.71% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days +0.61% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Medical Distribution · United States · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Medical Distribution · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against CAH on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Cardinal Health Inc

CAH in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Cardinal Health distributes pharmaceuticals and medical supplies across the United States and abroad, organised into a Pharmaceutical and Specialty Solutions arm and a Global Medical Products and Distribution arm. It moves branded and generic drugs, specialty medicines and over-the-counter products to hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and patients at home, and it also runs pharmacy-management and supply-chain services for healthcare providers. On the products side it manufactures its own line of gloves, needles, wound-care and surgical items under the Cardinal Health name. It is based near Dublin, Ohio, in the United States.
Where it sits in the stack
Cardinal Health has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, because it sits outside the chip and data-centre supply chain. Within our wider universe it belongs to the healthcare distribution and medical products sleeve, where the diary tracks it as a logistics and supply name for drugs and medical devices rather than as an AI infrastructure holding.
Who it is priced against
Our peer group work has not yet assigned it a formal set of comparators; the name the market usually places alongside it is McKesson, another large US drug and medical-supply distributor.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Cardinal Health holds a seat in the S&P 500. It carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how the split between the pharmaceutical distribution business and the medical products business shifts, since the two segments carry different margin and volume patterns.

Cardinal Health Inc (CAH) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.93%, quarterly · last 0.52 USD on 2026-07-01

Dividends and capital return

What CAH pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.05 USD per share · a 0.93% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +1.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.03 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.52 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-07-01
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.00 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.51 USD · 2025: 2.03 USD · 2026: 1.54 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-10-02

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Cardinal Health Inc (CAH)?

Cardinal Health Inc trades as CAH on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is CAH in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Cardinal Health Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does CAH trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -5.4% vs the 50-day and +1.4% vs the 200-day average, 14.7% below the 52-week high and +52.2% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Cardinal Health Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Cardinal Health Inc had a beta of 0.26 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 25% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.71% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Cardinal Health Inc do?

Cardinal Health distributes pharmaceuticals and medical supplies across the United States and abroad, organised into a Pharmaceutical and Specialty Solutions arm and a Global Medical Products and Distribution arm. It moves branded and generic drugs, specialty medicines and over-the-counter products to hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and patients at home, and it also runs pharmacy-management and supply-chain services for healthcare providers. On the products side it manufactures its own line of gloves, needles, wound-care and surgical items under the Cardinal Health name. Our peer group work has not yet assigned it a formal set of comparators; the name the market usually places alongside it is McKesson, another large US drug and medical-supply distributor.

Where does Cardinal Health Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Cardinal Health has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index, because it sits outside the chip and data-centre supply chain. Within our wider universe it belongs to the healthcare distribution and medical products sleeve, where the diary tracks it as a logistics and supply name for drugs and medical devices rather than as an AI infrastructure holding. Cardinal Health holds a seat in the S&P 500. It carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted it in any edition so far.

Does Cardinal Health Inc pay a dividend?

Cardinal Health Inc has paid 2.05 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.93% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.52 USD on 2026-07-01. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for CAH, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Medical Distribution, then Healthcare. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.