Got $10,000? This Under?the?Radar Medical Device Giant Could Be a Millionaire Maker by 2036.
2026-02-26 09:25:00 ET
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) has a huge 64 price-to-earnings ratio. Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) , a competitor in the medical device niche, has a P/E ratio of 26. There's an opportunity here for long-term investors who think in decades, not days.
The big story about Intuitive Surgical is that it is a leader in surgical robotics thanks to its da Vinci surgical systems. At the end of 2025, it had 11,106 da Vinci systems installed, up 12% year over year. That said, the number of surgeries performed by da Vinci systems rose 18% year over year. Very clearly, there is material demand for the company's robots in the medical community and among patients.
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