Posted On: 04/21/2014 10:28:52 PM
Post# of 273319

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) 411.11 $ISRG
Stocks Rise; Valeant, Netflix Soar After Hours
at Investor's Business Daily - Mon Apr 21, 4:00PM CDT
Stocks rose Monday, with the S&P 500 notching its fifth straight gain, as quarterly earnings reports continue to roll out. Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX) soared in post-session trading after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Canadian drugmaker...
Promotional Campaigns, Equity Awards, Stock Price Movements, New Launches, and Company Events - Analyst Notes on Pfizer, Intuitive Surgical, HCA Holdings, General Electric and John Deere
PR Newswire - Mon Apr 21, 7:00AM CDT
Today, Analysts Review released its analysts' notes regarding Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG), HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and Deere & Company (NYSE: DE). Private wealth members receive these notes ahead of publication. To reserve complementary membership, limited openings are available at: http://www.analystsreview.com/1353-100free.
SmarTrend Watching for Potential Rebound in Shares of Intuitive Surgical After 1.86% Loss
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Tue Apr 15, 4:03PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $410.61 to a high of $427.26. Yesterday, the shares fell 1.9%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $422.41 on volume of 765,000 shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
Watch for Intuitive Surgical to Potentially Rebound After Falling 1.86% Yesterday
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Tue Apr 15, 4:02PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $410.61 to a high of $427.26. Yesterday, the shares fell 1.9%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $422.41 on volume of 765,000 shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
Better Buy: Illumina, Inc. Vs. Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Todd Campbell, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue Apr 15, 1:30PM CDT
Health care investors have never been shy about rewarding innovation. Biotech companies continually sport nosebleed valuation based on assumptions that new, game-changing therapies will improve patient outcomes. But biotech isn't the only health...
J&J Earnings Beat Estimates As Pharma Sales Shine
at Investor's Business Daily - Tue Apr 15, 10:17AM CDT
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) kicked off the medical industry's Q1 earnings season with a modest upside surprise Tuesday, sending the stock up 1.5% in morning trading on the stock market today. J&J's earnings, minus one-time items, totaled $1.54 a share,...
Health Care Sector Stocks under Review -- Research on Wright Medical, Globus Medical, Intuitive Surgical, and Accuray
PR Newswire - Tue Apr 15, 10:03AM CDT
The trading session on Monday, April 14, 2014 ended on a higher note as the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 16,173.24, up 0.91% and the NASDAQ Composite closed at 4,022.69, up 0.57%. The S&P 500 finished the session 0.82% higher at 1,830.61. The gains were broad based as all the ten sectors finished on a positive note. The S&P 500 Health Care Sector Index finished the day at 648.05, up 0.51%, while the same has lost 1.86% in the last three months. Investor-Edge has initiated coverage on the following equities: Wright Medical Group Inc. (NASDAQ: WMGI), Globus Medical Inc. (NYSE: GMED), Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) and Accuray Inc. (NASDAQ: ARAY). Free technical research on WMGI, GMED, ISRG and ARAY can be downloaded upon signing up at:
Why Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., and Pitney Bowes Inc. Are Today's 3 Worst Stocks
John Divine, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Mon Apr 14, 6:41PM CDT
Stocks ended last week on an abysmal note. The S&P 500 Index lost 2% on Thursday, then another 1% on Friday, as a sell-off in high-growth names, tech and biotech companies drove the market lower. Thankfully, Wall Street bounced back on Monday...
Can Intuitive Surgical Find New Growth?
Leo Sun, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Mon Apr 14, 5:30PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical , the maker of the $1.5 million da Vinci surgical robot, has had a tough year. After peaking north of $580 last February, the stock has fallen more than 20% due to tighter hospital budgets, fewer prostate ...
Stocks Reporting Earnings -- Research on Synovus Financial , Lockheed Martin , Packaging Corp. of America, and Intuitive Surgical
PR Newswire - Mon Apr 14, 8:00AM CDT
Earningsource.com provides investors with earnings schedule updates throughout the earnings season. With timely information on past earnings performance and earnings projection for their upcoming quarterly release, our aim is to ensure shareholders and traders have an edge on their investment decisions on the following companies: Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV), Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), Packaging Corp. of America (NYSE: PKG) and Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG). Full earnings notes on SNV, LMT, PKG and ISRG can be downloaded upon signing up at:
Is Now a Good Time to Buy Intuitive Surgical Inc Stock?
Michael Douglass and David Williamson, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sun Apr 13, 12:45PM CDT
Shareholders of Intuitive Surgical had a rough week, with a weak first quarter preliminary results release driving shares lower. The numbers themselves were pretty ugly: A 24% decline in overall revenue, driven largely by a 59% decline in da Vinci...
Will Obamacare Lead to a Medical Device Innovation Revolution?
Sean Williams, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sun Apr 13, 11:31AM CDT
The first year of Obamacare enrollment is officially in the books, and more than 7 million people enrolled for health insurance on a state or federally run Obamacare exchange. This figure more or less matches projected enrollment targets from the...
5 Stocks to Buy Now for Your Retirement Portfolio
Brian Stoffel, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sat Apr 12, 9:30AM CDT
Hold your breath, Fools. I'm doing something today that I've never done before: talking about not one or two great stocks to buy now ... but five . Why am I doing that? It all started three years ago, when I publicly pledged to put $40,000 of my...
Look for Shares of Intuitive Surgical to Potentially Rebound after Yesterday's 3.08% Sell Off
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Fri Apr 11, 4:46PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $433.72 to a high of $451.63. Yesterday, the shares fell 3.1%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $439.02 on volume of 811,000 shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
What's Behind Intuitive Surgical Inc's Revenue Miss?
Stephen D., Simpson,, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Apr 11, 1:30PM CDT
If surgical robot pioneer Intuitive Surgical is going to keep its heady med-tech growth stock multiple, it has to do better than this. After logging just 4% revenue growth in 2013, Intuitive's announcement of a 24% drop to start 2014...
Priority Reviews, Preliminary Earnings Releases, Clinical Trials Results, and Launch of Website - Analyst Notes on Gilead, Pfizer, Intuitive Surgical, Alkermes and Quest
PR Newswire - Fri Apr 11, 9:14AM CDT
Today, Analysts Review released its analysts' notes regarding Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD), Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG), Alkermes plc (NASDAQ: ALKS) and Quest Diagnostics Inc. (NYSE: DGX). Private wealth members receive these notes ahead of publication. To reserve complementary membership, limited openings are available at: http://www.analystsreview.com/989-100free.
Intuitive Surgical Reports New Employee Option Grants for April 2014
GlobeNewswire - Thu Apr 10, 3:34PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISRG) today reported that equity awards approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, which consists entirely of Independent Directors, were made to 23 new employees. Pursuant to NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5635(c)(4), the equity awards were granted under the Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 2009 Commencement Incentive Plan, which the Board of Directors of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. adopted for the granting of equity awards to new employees. In accordance with NASDAQ rules, these grants were made under an equity incentive plan without shareholder approval. NASDAQ rules require a public announcement of equity awards to be made under this type of plan. 23 employees were granted a combination of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Stock Options to purchase an aggregate of 4,529 shares of the Company's common stock; 3,453 of the shares granted were Stock Options and 1,076 of the shares granted were RSUs. Both the RSUs and Stock Options vest over four years. The Stock Options expire in 10 years assuming continued employment. No officers received any award under this plan. The exercise price for the Stock Options granted is $497.03 which was the closing price of Intuitive Surgical, Inc.'s common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market as such price was reported by NASDAQ on April 7, 2014. The Company's policy is to issue RSUs and Stock Option grants to new employees, where equity makes sense, on the fifth business day of every calendar month.
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Malfunctions: Time to Buy?
Steve Symington, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Apr 10, 1:30PM CDT
Sometimes, it hurts a whole lot less if you just get it over with and rip off the bandage. Unfortunately, it probably doesn't feel that way right now to Intuitive Surgical, shareholders, who watched their stock drop more than 10% in Wednesday's...
Intuitive Surgical's Huge Revenue Drop
Erin Kennedy and Sara Hov, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Apr 10, 11:36AM CDT
Shares of Intuitive Surgical dropped 7% yesterday after the company pre-announced earnings. Revenue was down 24% year over year, which was well beyond analysts' consensus estimate. However, in today's Stock of the Day , Motley Fool analyst Sara...
Stocks Rise; Valeant, Netflix Soar After Hours
at Investor's Business Daily - Mon Apr 21, 4:00PM CDT
Stocks rose Monday, with the S&P 500 notching its fifth straight gain, as quarterly earnings reports continue to roll out. Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX) soared in post-session trading after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Canadian drugmaker...
Promotional Campaigns, Equity Awards, Stock Price Movements, New Launches, and Company Events - Analyst Notes on Pfizer, Intuitive Surgical, HCA Holdings, General Electric and John Deere
PR Newswire - Mon Apr 21, 7:00AM CDT
Today, Analysts Review released its analysts' notes regarding Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG), HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA), General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) and Deere & Company (NYSE: DE). Private wealth members receive these notes ahead of publication. To reserve complementary membership, limited openings are available at: http://www.analystsreview.com/1353-100free.
SmarTrend Watching for Potential Rebound in Shares of Intuitive Surgical After 1.86% Loss
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Tue Apr 15, 4:03PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $410.61 to a high of $427.26. Yesterday, the shares fell 1.9%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $422.41 on volume of 765,000 shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
Watch for Intuitive Surgical to Potentially Rebound After Falling 1.86% Yesterday
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Tue Apr 15, 4:02PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $410.61 to a high of $427.26. Yesterday, the shares fell 1.9%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $422.41 on volume of 765,000 shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
Better Buy: Illumina, Inc. Vs. Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Todd Campbell, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue Apr 15, 1:30PM CDT
Health care investors have never been shy about rewarding innovation. Biotech companies continually sport nosebleed valuation based on assumptions that new, game-changing therapies will improve patient outcomes. But biotech isn't the only health...
J&J Earnings Beat Estimates As Pharma Sales Shine
at Investor's Business Daily - Tue Apr 15, 10:17AM CDT
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) kicked off the medical industry's Q1 earnings season with a modest upside surprise Tuesday, sending the stock up 1.5% in morning trading on the stock market today. J&J's earnings, minus one-time items, totaled $1.54 a share,...
Health Care Sector Stocks under Review -- Research on Wright Medical, Globus Medical, Intuitive Surgical, and Accuray
PR Newswire - Tue Apr 15, 10:03AM CDT
The trading session on Monday, April 14, 2014 ended on a higher note as the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 16,173.24, up 0.91% and the NASDAQ Composite closed at 4,022.69, up 0.57%. The S&P 500 finished the session 0.82% higher at 1,830.61. The gains were broad based as all the ten sectors finished on a positive note. The S&P 500 Health Care Sector Index finished the day at 648.05, up 0.51%, while the same has lost 1.86% in the last three months. Investor-Edge has initiated coverage on the following equities: Wright Medical Group Inc. (NASDAQ: WMGI), Globus Medical Inc. (NYSE: GMED), Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) and Accuray Inc. (NASDAQ: ARAY). Free technical research on WMGI, GMED, ISRG and ARAY can be downloaded upon signing up at:
Why Intuitive Surgical, Inc., Delta Air Lines Inc., and Pitney Bowes Inc. Are Today's 3 Worst Stocks
John Divine, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Mon Apr 14, 6:41PM CDT
Stocks ended last week on an abysmal note. The S&P 500 Index lost 2% on Thursday, then another 1% on Friday, as a sell-off in high-growth names, tech and biotech companies drove the market lower. Thankfully, Wall Street bounced back on Monday...
Can Intuitive Surgical Find New Growth?
Leo Sun, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Mon Apr 14, 5:30PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical , the maker of the $1.5 million da Vinci surgical robot, has had a tough year. After peaking north of $580 last February, the stock has fallen more than 20% due to tighter hospital budgets, fewer prostate ...
Stocks Reporting Earnings -- Research on Synovus Financial , Lockheed Martin , Packaging Corp. of America, and Intuitive Surgical
PR Newswire - Mon Apr 14, 8:00AM CDT
Earningsource.com provides investors with earnings schedule updates throughout the earnings season. With timely information on past earnings performance and earnings projection for their upcoming quarterly release, our aim is to ensure shareholders and traders have an edge on their investment decisions on the following companies: Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE: SNV), Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), Packaging Corp. of America (NYSE: PKG) and Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG). Full earnings notes on SNV, LMT, PKG and ISRG can be downloaded upon signing up at:
Is Now a Good Time to Buy Intuitive Surgical Inc Stock?
Michael Douglass and David Williamson, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sun Apr 13, 12:45PM CDT
Shareholders of Intuitive Surgical had a rough week, with a weak first quarter preliminary results release driving shares lower. The numbers themselves were pretty ugly: A 24% decline in overall revenue, driven largely by a 59% decline in da Vinci...
Will Obamacare Lead to a Medical Device Innovation Revolution?
Sean Williams, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sun Apr 13, 11:31AM CDT
The first year of Obamacare enrollment is officially in the books, and more than 7 million people enrolled for health insurance on a state or federally run Obamacare exchange. This figure more or less matches projected enrollment targets from the...
5 Stocks to Buy Now for Your Retirement Portfolio
Brian Stoffel, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sat Apr 12, 9:30AM CDT
Hold your breath, Fools. I'm doing something today that I've never done before: talking about not one or two great stocks to buy now ... but five . Why am I doing that? It all started three years ago, when I publicly pledged to put $40,000 of my...
Look for Shares of Intuitive Surgical to Potentially Rebound after Yesterday's 3.08% Sell Off
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Fri Apr 11, 4:46PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $433.72 to a high of $451.63. Yesterday, the shares fell 3.1%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $439.02 on volume of 811,000 shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
What's Behind Intuitive Surgical Inc's Revenue Miss?
Stephen D., Simpson,, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Apr 11, 1:30PM CDT
If surgical robot pioneer Intuitive Surgical is going to keep its heady med-tech growth stock multiple, it has to do better than this. After logging just 4% revenue growth in 2013, Intuitive's announcement of a 24% drop to start 2014...
Priority Reviews, Preliminary Earnings Releases, Clinical Trials Results, and Launch of Website - Analyst Notes on Gilead, Pfizer, Intuitive Surgical, Alkermes and Quest
PR Newswire - Fri Apr 11, 9:14AM CDT
Today, Analysts Review released its analysts' notes regarding Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD), Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG), Alkermes plc (NASDAQ: ALKS) and Quest Diagnostics Inc. (NYSE: DGX). Private wealth members receive these notes ahead of publication. To reserve complementary membership, limited openings are available at: http://www.analystsreview.com/989-100free.
Intuitive Surgical Reports New Employee Option Grants for April 2014
GlobeNewswire - Thu Apr 10, 3:34PM CDT
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISRG) today reported that equity awards approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors, which consists entirely of Independent Directors, were made to 23 new employees. Pursuant to NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5635(c)(4), the equity awards were granted under the Intuitive Surgical, Inc. 2009 Commencement Incentive Plan, which the Board of Directors of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. adopted for the granting of equity awards to new employees. In accordance with NASDAQ rules, these grants were made under an equity incentive plan without shareholder approval. NASDAQ rules require a public announcement of equity awards to be made under this type of plan. 23 employees were granted a combination of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Stock Options to purchase an aggregate of 4,529 shares of the Company's common stock; 3,453 of the shares granted were Stock Options and 1,076 of the shares granted were RSUs. Both the RSUs and Stock Options vest over four years. The Stock Options expire in 10 years assuming continued employment. No officers received any award under this plan. The exercise price for the Stock Options granted is $497.03 which was the closing price of Intuitive Surgical, Inc.'s common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market as such price was reported by NASDAQ on April 7, 2014. The Company's policy is to issue RSUs and Stock Option grants to new employees, where equity makes sense, on the fifth business day of every calendar month.
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Malfunctions: Time to Buy?
Steve Symington, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Apr 10, 1:30PM CDT
Sometimes, it hurts a whole lot less if you just get it over with and rip off the bandage. Unfortunately, it probably doesn't feel that way right now to Intuitive Surgical, shareholders, who watched their stock drop more than 10% in Wednesday's...
Intuitive Surgical's Huge Revenue Drop
Erin Kennedy and Sara Hov, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Thu Apr 10, 11:36AM CDT
Shares of Intuitive Surgical dropped 7% yesterday after the company pre-announced earnings. Revenue was down 24% year over year, which was well beyond analysts' consensus estimate. However, in today's Stock of the Day , Motley Fool analyst Sara...

