Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Motley Fool: What's Behind Intuitive Surgical Inc's Revenue Miss?

If surgical robot pioneer Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG  ) 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 is certainly not a step in the right direction. Some of the trouble may well be from transitory issues like weather and delays tied to hospitals awaiting new product rollouts, but Wall Street is not a forgiving place when high multiple growth stories stop delivering that growth.

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What's Behind Intuitive Surgical Inc's Revenue Miss?

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