On the Record · McKesson
McKesson competitors, on the record
The companies McKesson names as competitors in its annual reports, 2023 to 2026, and the companies that name McKesson, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who McKesson names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Cardinal Health, Inc. | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Cencora, Inc. | 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| AmerisourceBergen Corporation | 2023 |
In its own words
Cardinal Health, Inc., Cencora, Inc.
Word for word“Our primary competitors in distribution, wholesaling, and logistics are Cencora, Inc. and Cardinal Health, Inc.” 10-K for 2026
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
Word for word“We consider our largest competitors in distribution, wholesaling, and logistics to be AmerisourceBergen Corporation and Cardinal Health, Inc.” 10-K for 2023
Who names McKesson
Companies whose own annual reports name McKesson as a competitor.
Word for word“In the Pharma segment, we compete with wholesale distributors with national reach, including McKesson Corporation and Cencora, Inc., regional wholesale distributors, self-warehousing chains, specialty distributors, third-party logistics companies, and companies that provide specialty pharmaceutical services and managed services to specialty physicians, among others.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our largest competitors are McKesson Corporation (“McKesson”), Cardinal Health, Inc. (“Cardinal”), and UPS Logistics, among others.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Some of our current large competitors, such as Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.; Cerner Corporation; Epic Systems Corporation; McKesson Corp.; and Quality Systems, Inc. and its subsidiary NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, have greater name recognition, longer operating histories, and/or significantly greater resources than we do.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“Our primary competitors in the U.S. medical distribution market, which accounts for the large majority of our global medical sales, are McKesson Corporation and Medline Industries, Inc., which are national distributors.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Additionally, other distributors of med-surg products similarly connect the fragmented supplier and provider bases and aggregate inventory from suppliers to deliver products to customers, such as McKesson, Cardinal Health, Owens & Minor, and Henry Schein.” 10-K for 2025
Read from McKesson’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-05-08. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.