Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (ISRG)
Manufacturer of da Vinci Surgical System, an advanced surgical system that provides the surgeon with range of motion and fine tissue control, previously possible only with open surgery while also allowing the surgeon to work through small ports.
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Great company, great product. The only looming issue is how they will be effected by healthcare reform. And it is not nessessarily negative given the potential efficiancies produced by their product in the medical marketplace.
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value+growth
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Proprietary technology for minimally-invasive surgery.
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Look I love the Da Vinci technology and ISRG has done a great job with it, but this stock is not for the faint of heart. It is extremely volatile. I think it is a buy at $150 and below. I think a stock price of $150 would represent the true value of the business.
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My goodness: patent lock, cash pigs, absolutely required health technology, revolutionary procedures. Crushed estimates today. This stock defines the Fool philosophy.
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Get it before they figure out the Health Care bill. You won't want to pay the premium for it then.
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7/122 in Health Care Equipment -(67.7@A-/A+)
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DOCTORS AREN'T GETTING ANY BETTER. WE NEED THIS COMPANY.
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Nothing but good things about da Vinci, RB rec, 4 stars. Also a big fan of technology and healthcare, ISRG nicely ties both together. Real life holding.
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Great growth story in the making. Well regarded in CAPS and Fooldom.
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Relative Strength
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overpriced
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ISRG looks very overbought right now. This is a great company, but the numbers, even optimistic ones, do not support the valuation.
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Innovator. Less invasive surgery will only increase in the future and there are a ton of hospitals out there as potential buyers for the DeVinci system.
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Obamacare needs to save money i.e. less time spent in hospital with keyhole surgery
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Using the daVinci robot to do cardiac bypass is amazing and in its infancy. The chest is not "cracked open" (the sternum split with an electric saw), the heart is not stopped and the patient is not put on the heart/lung bypass machine which has it's own set of problems. If about 75% of all prostectomes done in this county are done by the dVP procedure now after a few short years of use we can imagine what will happen to "open heart surgery" in another 5 to 10 years. One cardiac surgeon is reported to have said that we will look back 10 years from now and wonder how we could have been so barbaric with our heart patients. One only has to talk to patients that have had open heart surgery and compare them to patients that have had a daVinci bypass procedure to understand what patients will be insisting on in the future (just like dVP).
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Simplt a must stock
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Even a small Swiss regional hospital recently bought a DaVinci system. The head of the hospital said, there is much economic sense for them to buy the system. They expect to be more efficient and the system allows them to discharge the patients in a shorter amount of time. There is a lot of potential out there and I believe ISRG has by far not reached market saturation. And: every system installed creates a lot of after-sales potential for the service division.
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Victim of the market. Worth more than what it is trading at.
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Intuitive Surgical has a great market niche, and stellar revenue growth. The stock has been beaten up, but is coming back very strong. Of course, I wish I was in the stock at half this price...

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