Company Analysis

Cvs Health Corporation (CVS)

NYSE: CVS · Retail-Drug Stores and Proprietary Stores · Woonsocket, RI · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade5.6
◀ Past 5.5● Present 6.0▶ Future 5.1

The grade of Cvs Health Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.6/10
◀ Past5.525% of the headline
● Present6.045% of the headline
▶ Future5.130% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.5/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
2.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2023-05-02.

weight 45% of this tense · 25th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Cvs Health Corporation's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2023-05-02) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
8.6/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9.5% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 86th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cvs Health Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $178 billion in fiscal 2016 to $402 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9.5% a year; it rose in 9 of 9 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.5%top 22% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 6% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 22% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 6% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
7.0/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.3% a year. 45% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 8 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 70th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Cvs Health Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 45% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06, buying about $2 million (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 32% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 27% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

6.0/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 2%: 2¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 70%: owes 70¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 56th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Cvs Health Corporation earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 71 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 70 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 31% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 41% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 15% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
7.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 25% of 18 in its family; net margin 0.4%.

weight 33% of this tense · 75th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cvs Health Corporation's standing among 18 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $402 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 3% by size; a net margin of 0.4% ranks in the bottom 47%; revenue growth of 7.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 19% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$402.1Btop 3% of its family
  • net margin0.4%bottom 47% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth7.6%top 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
4.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 48% of 8 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024.

weight 22% of this tense · 48th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Cvs Health Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Joyner, J. David (President, CEO and Chair, as filed), filing under that title since the record of its people begins (2024-11-15), so the years before are not on the record and this part is not read; the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.4 years (bottom 28%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 32%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge9 in three years among 22 peopletop 32% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed3.4 yearsbottom 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.1/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 49% of 18 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 49th percentile among 18 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Cvs Health Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $8.5 billion against debt of $61 billion leaves -20.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.9% of revenue (top 42%); a gross margin of 45% (top 15%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-20.5%bottom 3% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue1.9%top 42% of its family
  • gross margin45.0%top 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
5.9/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 41% of 16 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 59th percentile among 16 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Cvs Health Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 7.6% a year over the last three filed years against 9.5% over all 10, slowing (top 41% of its family); the newest year grew 7.9% (top 34%); capital spending grew 1.3% a year (top 47%) (its annual reports). Cvs Health Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Health Services at $190 billion, Health Care Benefits at $143 billion, Pharmacy and Consumer Health at $139 billion. 3 of 3 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 40% of revenue (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.9 points a yeartop 41% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth7.9%top 34% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending1.3%top 47% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.1/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 41% of 15 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 41st percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Cvs Health Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $402 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.3% above the $401 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 37% of its family); net income of $1.7 billion against a prior three-year average of $5.8 billion (bottom 30%); a net margin of 0.4% against 1.6% before (top 43%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace0.3%bottom 37% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-70%bottom 30% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-1.2 pointstop 43% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton CVS · research, not advice