Cardinal Health, Inc.: income tax expense or benefit

At a glance

Cardinal Health reported income tax expense or benefit of $469.0 million for the year ending 2026-06-30, down 11.8% from $532.0 million a year earlier. Across the last five reported years it ranged from $153.0 million (2022-06-30) to $532.0 million (2025-06-30). That was 0.2% of revenue ($254.2 billion) for the same year.

Computed from the values in the table below, in USD; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Current and deferred income tax expense or benefit for continuing operations. This accounting expense differs from cash taxes paid.

Exact concept: us-gaap:IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2007-07-01 to 2026-06-30. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

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Entity

Cardinal Health, Inc. / CIK 0000721371

Captured

2026-09-19 14:59 UTC

SEC response SHA-256

15ee5d44f7a725091f5446fdd31c6240129b52589f205be995ed083006197d87

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000721371.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))