ISRG vs. ABT, BSX, SYK, MDT, BDX, EW, IDXX, DXCM, RMD, and STE
Should you be buying Intuitive Surgical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuitive Surgical include Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Boston Scientific (BSX), Stryker (SYK), Medtronic (MDT), Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX), Edwards Lifesciences (EW), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), DexCom (DXCM), ResMed (RMD), and STERIS (STE). These companies are all part of the "health care equipment" industry.
Intuitive Surgical vs.
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) and Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, risk and community ranking.
Intuitive Surgical has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abbott Laboratories has a beta of 0.75, indicating that its stock price is 25% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Intuitive Surgical currently has a consensus price target of $613.10, indicating a potential upside of 3.60%. Abbott Laboratories has a consensus price target of $133.06, indicating a potential downside of 1.46%. Given Intuitive Surgical's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Intuitive Surgical is more favorable than Abbott Laboratories.
Abbott Laboratories has a net margin of 31.95% compared to Intuitive Surgical's net margin of 27.81%. Abbott Laboratories' return on equity of 20.74% beat Intuitive Surgical's return on equity.
83.6% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 75.2% of Abbott Laboratories shares are held by institutional investors. 0.9% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Abbott Laboratories shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Intuitive Surgical received 108 more outperform votes than Abbott Laboratories when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 69.90% of users gave Abbott Laboratories an outperform vote while only 68.87% of users gave Intuitive Surgical an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Abbott Laboratories had 23 more articles in the media than Intuitive Surgical. MarketBeat recorded 72 mentions for Abbott Laboratories and 49 mentions for Intuitive Surgical. Abbott Laboratories' average media sentiment score of 1.56 beat Intuitive Surgical's score of 1.35 indicating that Abbott Laboratories is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Abbott Laboratories has higher revenue and earnings than Intuitive Surgical. Abbott Laboratories is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuitive Surgical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Abbott Laboratories beats Intuitive Surgical on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:ISRG) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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