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Market Wrap For April 1: S&P 500 Hitting New All-Time High Not An April Fools' Joke
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 4:47pm | 1704U.S. stocks kicked off a new month and new quarter with solid gains as U.S. manufacturing growth improved in March. The indexes have now logged a three-day winning streak, an accomplishment which was completely absent throughout all of March. The S&P 500 hit new all-time highs of 1,885.84...
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Shares of Intuitive Surgical Soar as Company Introduces its Da Vinci Xi Surgical System
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 3:21pm | 264Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) introduced its Da Vinci Xi Surgical system on Tuesday. The company is stating that its new machine, which has already been approved by the FDA, has broader capabilities than prior generations. The new surgical system allows the surgeon to have a greater range of...
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Market Wrap For February 19: Stocks Close Lower, Nasdaq Ends Winning Streak
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 6:01pm | 2948U.S. stocks finished the day near session lows as investors found little reason to be bullish. Housing data came in poor and failed to rally the bulls. Several Fed members raised the idea of a rate hike but “participants agreed that, with the unemployment rate approaching 6.5 percent, it would...
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Market Wrap For January 24: Fear Is Back In The Markets
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 5:30pm | 2424Major indices continued to plummet on Friday with no economic data released that could rejuvenate the market. Investors remain worried about a Chinese slowdown, a mixed-bag of corporate results on Wall Street and possible further tapering just around the corner as the Fed meets again next...
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Luna Up 90 Percent On Wednesday – Why?
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 12:44pm | 464Shares of Luna Innovations (NASDAQ: LUNA) were up almost 90 percent on Wednesday. The 6.6 million shares that changed hands blew away the average of 158,448 shares per day, so what caused this $36 million company to nearly double in value? The company announced that it’s selling its shape-...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 15
Sunday, July 14, 2013 - 8:43pm | 1120The earnings season ramps up this week, providing plenty of perspective on how the financial and technology sectors fared in the second quarter. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Intel (NYSE: INTC), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and many...
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Intuitive Surgical Plunging after Negative Pre-Announcement (ISRG)
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 11:20am | 444In a pre-announcement Monday evening, Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) said that it expects to report net income of $160 million and revenue of $575 million--a catastrophic miss versus analyst expectations of $177.7 million and $630.4 million respectively. The company developed the da Vinci...
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The 20 Stocks with the Highest Share Price
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 12:48pm | 142It's official. With its shares eclipsing the $900 mark, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is trading in the nosebleeds. Out of curiosity, Benzinga decided to look where other publicly traded companies in the S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) were trading at. This only includes the S&P 500 -- otherwise companies...
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Barron's Recap (1/26/12): Made in America
Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 8:24pm | 897This weekend in Barron's online: a manufacturing boom in the United States is in its early days, part two of the Barron's 2013 Roundtable picks and pans, and the prospects for Intuitive Surgical, Apple and Ryman Hospitality Properties. Cover Story "The Next Boom" by Kopin Tan. After decades of...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 15
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 6:54am | 1457The earnings crunch gets underway this week, with big names in the financial, technology, consumer goods and other sectors on tap to share their most recent quarterly results. Among those expected to post the biggest year-over-year gains in earnings are Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT), BlackRock (NYSE: BLK...
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Cooper Companies Earnings Preview: Double-Digit Revenue Growth Expected
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 8:03am | 660Cooper Companies (NYSE: COO) is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter 2011 results tomorrow afternoon, December 8. Its profit fell in the third quarter, breaking a streak of three consecutive quarters of year-over-year profit increases. Investors will be looking for Cooper to return to earnings...
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Intuitive Surgical Upside Looming?
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 3:36pm | 270By TradersHuddle Staff New York, December 1st (TradersHuddle.com) –Shares of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) gained 0.32% to $435.59, with price action in the session Intuitive forming what is considered to be a bullish engulfing candle that could very well signal continuation of trend or...
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Collins Stewart Maintains Buy on Intuitive Surgical
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 9:21am | 94Collins Stewart is out with its report today on Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), maintaining Buy. In a note to clients, Collins Stewart writes, "Over the past couple of days, we attended the annual World Robotic Society conference, which is focused on ISRG's da Vinci system. Overall, our due...
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J.P. Morgan Maintains ISRG Neutral Rating, $280 PT
Friday, January 21, 2011 - 9:12am | 172J.P. Morgan is maintaining its Neutral rating and $280 PT on Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG). “Following several med tech pre-announcements, the comfort factor into 4Q results had increased, but the key debate, in our view, was about procedure guidance, which came in at 25-28% (vs. our 28%...
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Goldman Sachs Revises Estimates on Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 10:53am | 89Goldman Sachs updates its EPS estimates on Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG). In a note to clients, Goldman Sachs writes, "We are updating our FY2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 EPS estimates for ISRG to $8.76, $9.92, $11.66, $13.42 and $15.08 from $8.73, $9.83, $11.41, $13.05 and $14.40. The...