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Vishnu Lekraj
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Cardinal Health Announces Two Major Developments; Our FVE and Wide Moat Rating Are Intact

Cardinal Health announced two significant developments April 18 related to its core pharmaceutical distribution and emerging medical product distribution operations. The firm will buy a sizable medical consumable product line from Medtronic for $6.1 billion; separately, it revised its generic profit outlook downward. As a result of the latter, Cardinal has lowered its profit outlook for the remainder of fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2018. Management did say it expects profit to recover into fiscal 2019...
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Cardinal Health Inc.

Cardinal Health is a healthcare services and products company providing customized solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories and physician offices. The company's segments include: Pharmaceutical and Medical. The company's Pharmaceutical segment distributes branded and generic pharmaceutical, specialty pharmaceutical and over-the-counter healthcare and consumer products in the United States. The company's Medical segment manufactures, sources and distributes Cardinal Health branded medical, surgical and laboratory products, which are sold in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and other markets.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

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