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CAH CARDINAL HEALTH INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 14149Y108 · Sector: Consumer

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
1,498
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+71
Last quarter 1,427 → now 1,498
How unusual is that
Top 5%
Stronger buying than 95% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

1,498 funds held CAH at the end of 2026Q2, up 71 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 95.4% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $244.7B(YoY +10.1%), the P/E is 36.2x. CAH has had 27 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +8.5% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Consumer sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=560 2013Q4: holders=626 2014Q1: holders=632 2014Q2: holders=619 2014Q3: holders=623 2014Q4: holders=687 2015Q1: holders=717 2015Q2: holders=743 2015Q3: holders=739 2015Q4: holders=760 2016Q1: holders=773 2016Q2: holders=787 2016Q3: holders=750 2016Q4: holders=756 2017Q1: holders=748 2017Q2: holders=729 2017Q3: holders=696 2017Q4: holders=709 2018Q1: holders=728 2018Q2: holders=699 2018Q3: holders=674 2018Q4: holders=707 2019Q1: holders=687 2019Q2: holders=677 2019Q3: holders=658 2019Q4: holders=703 2020Q1: holders=714 2020Q2: holders=757 2020Q3: holders=734 2020Q4: holders=771 2021Q1: holders=787 2021Q2: holders=777 2021Q3: holders=741 2021Q4: holders=776 2022Q1: holders=778 2022Q2: holders=786 2022Q3: holders=841 2022Q4: holders=921 2023Q1: holders=899 2023Q2: holders=938 2023Q3: holders=940 2023Q4: holders=1028 2024Q1: holders=1049 2024Q2: holders=1004 2024Q3: holders=1010 2024Q4: holders=1095 2025Q1: holders=1146 2025Q2: holders=1248 2025Q3: holders=1219 2025Q4: holders=1407 2026Q1: holders=1427 2026Q2: holders=1498 -188 -94 +0 +94 +188 50410391573 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 27 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 5% — —
2026Q1 Top 20% +17.9% —
2025Q4 Top 5% -10.3% +3.0%
2025Q2 Top 5% +37.6% +51.1%
2025Q1 Top 5% -2.9% +34.9%
2024Q4 Top 5% +22.7% +19.4%
2024Q1 Top 20% +11.4% +21.1%
2023Q4 Top 5% -4.7% +6.1%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
356
Change in large funds
+36
Total value they hold
$52.1B
Funds buying for the first time
175
Funds that sold out entirely
104
Price change that quarter
+18.2%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
22
Funds holding calls (bullish)
25

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
36.2
EPS (TTM)
$6.95
EPS YoY
+29.9%
Revenue (TTM)
$244.7B
Revenue YoY
+10.1%
Net margin
0.7%
ROE
—
Debt ratio
105.0%
FCF (TTM)
$5.5B
Dividend (TTM)
$2.03
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-03-31: EPS -5.05 2022-06-30: EPS 0.57 2022-09-30: EPS 0.36 2022-12-31: EPS -0.30 2023-03-31: EPS 1.41 2023-06-30: EPS -0.21 2023-09-30: EPS -0.05 2023-12-31: EPS 1.50 2024-03-31: EPS 1.07 2024-06-30: EPS 0.93 2024-09-30: EPS 1.70 2024-12-31: EPS 1.65 2025-03-31: EPS 2.10 2025-06-30: EPS 1.00 2025-09-30: EPS 1.88 2025-12-31: EPS 1.97 0B 32.8B 65.6B $B -5.56 -1.62 2.31 201620172018201920202021202220232024202512/25 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 32 20 71 123 202320242025

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-1.7B546M2.8B 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Latest quarter $555M (2025-12-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2025-12-31 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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