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Alex Morozov
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Intuitive's Q4 In Line, Maintaining Valuation

Intuitive's fourth-quarter results followed a similar pattern to prior quarters: strong procedure growth, buoyed by general surgery and an unexpected uptick in mature procedures; gross and operating margin uplift; and a generally cautious tone regarding 2017 expectations. All of these developments were in line with our expectations, and the firm's moderated forecast for 2017 also falls in line with our numbers. We maintain our fair value estimate for the company, and shares remain slightly overv...
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Intuitive Surgical Inc.

Intuitive Surgical develops, manufactures, and markets the da Vinci? Surgical System and the Ion? endoluminal system. The systems consist of a surgeon console or consoles, a patient-side cart, a vision system, and proprietary instruments and accessories. The company's technology is designed to provide surgeons with a range of motion analogous to the motions of a human wrist, while filtering out the tremors inherent in a surgeon's hands. The company's primary platform for robotic-assisted surgery is its family of da Vinci Surgical Systems. The da Vinci Surgical System allows surgeons to operate while seated at an ergonomic console viewing a three-dimensional image of the surgical field.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Alex Morozov

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