Cardinal Health continued the medical device play it began with the $320 million acquisition of AccessClosure in May 2014 by putting up $1.94 billion for Johnson & Johnson’s Cordis stent-making arm, which closed in October 2015.

Cardinal put Cordis back into the drug-eluting stent game via an overseas distribution agreement with Biosensors International in May 2016, inking a deal for Cordis to sell the BioFreedom, BioMatrix NeoFlex, BioMatrix Alpha and Chroma stents made by Biosensors in Europe, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Cordis said it plans to gradually roll out a new private-label brand for stents: Lumeno.

The company’s board approved a $1 billion share repurchasing program after Cardinal in May 2016 tightened its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, meaning nearly $1.4 billion is on the table for stock buybacks.

And just before this issue went to press, Navidea agreed to deal its LymphoSeek injection for sentinel lymph node detection to Cardinal for up to $310 million.

* Revenues from Cardinal Health’s medical segment.

** MDO accidentally published Cardinal Health’s total employee count, versus medical segment employee count, in last year’s Big 100.