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The Daily Beat - August 13, 2025 📈

We’re now past the 90% mark of S&P 500 companies reporting this earnings season. 

It has been a monster earnings season - one for the record books.

There has been a parade of powerful upside surprises, and earnings estimates by Wall Street are now pushing fresh all-time highs. 

That’s not bearish... You can’t have strong technicals without strong fundamentals to back them up.

But not every report is a victory lap. 

Yesterday's release from Cardinal Health $CAH was one of the rare misses in an otherwise stellar season - a sharp reminder that individual landmines can (and do) still blow up, even in the healthiest market environments.

That's exactly why we're working so closely with Herb Greenberg - to identify the weak links in the market.

Here are the latest earnings stats for CAH 👇

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The only report today came from the $25B drug distribution company known for being the main plug for CVS Health $CVS, and the pharmacy segment of UnitedHealth $UNH, Cardinal Health $CAH. 

The stock had a -6.45 reaction score after reporting mixed results. 

They posted revenues of $60.16B, versus the expected $60.89B, and earnings per share of $2.08, versus the expected $2.04.    

Now let's dive into the data and learn more about why the market didn't like this report 👇

CAH had its worst earnings reaction in 17 quarters 🩸

Cardinal Health fell 7.2% after this earnings report, and here's what happened:

  • Revenue was flat year-over-year, but up 21% excluding a major contract expiration.
  • They announced a new acquisition worth roughly $2.4B of Solaris Health to strengthen its high-margin specialty services segment.
  • The management team issued better-than-expected earnings guidance, but the dilution from the Solaris acquisition more than offset this.

This was a pretty gross earnings reaction from a stock that had been one of the few pockets of relative strength in the Healthcare sector.

It marked the decisive resolution of a multi-month distribution pattern and snapped a 5-quarter beat streak (i.e., consecutive positive earnings reactions).

Additionally, the bears came out in full force, sparking the worst earnings reaction in 17 quarters.

Now, the price is hanging on for dear life at a multi-year uptrend line that has served as support on numerous occasions recently.

We expect CAH to trend sideways to lower for the foreseeable future.

Thank you for reading

-The Beat Team 


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