How to buy Intuitive Surgical stock | 752.68

Intuitive Surgical, Inc is a medical instruments & supplies business based in the US. Intuitive Surgical shares (ISRG) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Intuitive Surgical employs 7,326 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$4.3 billion.

How to buy shares in Intuitive Surgical

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3. Search for Intuitive Surgical. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: ISRG. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Intuitive Surgical reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$752.68, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Intuitive Surgical, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Intuitive Surgical. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Intuitive Surgical's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Intuitive Surgical's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$752.68, which is 18.55% up on its pre-crash value of USD$613.08 and 108.79% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$360.5.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Intuitive Surgical shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$650.92 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,332.24.

Intuitive Surgical share price

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Intuitive Surgical shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-20.

Latest market close	USD$752.68
52-week range	USD$360.5 - USD$771.62
50-day moving average	USD$710.7177
200-day moving average	USD$619.9504
Wall St. target price	USD$687.44
PE ratio	85.7267
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$8.778

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Is it a good time to buy Intuitive Surgical stock?

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Intuitive Surgical price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $752.68 from 2020-10-16

1 week (2020-10-23)	2.34%
1 month (2020-10-01)	5.93%
3 months (2020-07-30)	9.50%
6 months (2020-04-30)	47.33%

1 year (2019-10-30)	35.30%
2 years (2018-10-30)	53.35%
3 years (2017-10-30)	100.13%
5 years (2015-10-30)	51.57%

Is Intuitive Surgical under- or over-valued?

Valuing Intuitive Surgical stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Intuitive Surgical's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Intuitive Surgical's P/E ratio

Intuitive Surgical's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 86x. In other words, Intuitive Surgical shares trade at around 86x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Intuitive Surgical's PEG ratio

Intuitive Surgical's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 5.2921. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Intuitive Surgical's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Intuitive Surgical's EBITDA

Intuitive Surgical's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$1.3 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Intuitive Surgical's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Intuitive Surgical financials

Revenue TTM	USD$4.3 billion
Operating margin TTM	23.97%
Gross profit TTM	USD$3.1 billion
Return on assets TTM	6.53%
Return on equity TTM	12.49%
Profit margin	24.45%
Book value	$79.171
Market capitalisation	USD$86.3 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Intuitive Surgical shares

There are currently 2.2 million Intuitive Surgical shares held short by investors – that's known as Intuitive Surgical's "short interest". This figure is 1.5% up from 2.1 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Intuitive Surgical shares can be evaluated.

Intuitive Surgical's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Intuitive Surgical's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Intuitive Surgical shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Intuitive Surgical shares traded daily (recently around 720494.33333333). Intuitive Surgical's SIR currently stands at 3. In other words for every 100,000 Intuitive Surgical shares traded daily on the market, roughly 3000 shares are currently held short.

However Intuitive Surgical's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Intuitive Surgical shares, or, against the total number of tradable Intuitive Surgical shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Intuitive Surgical's short interest could be expressed as 0.02% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Intuitive Surgical shares in existence, roughly 20 shares are currently held short) or 0.0186% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Intuitive Surgical shares, roughly 19 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Intuitive Surgical.

Find out more about how you can short Intuitive Surgical stock.

Intuitive Surgical's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Intuitive Surgical.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Intuitive Surgical's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 31.63

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Intuitive Surgical's overall score of 31.63 (as at 10/01/2020) is nothing to write home about – landing it in it in the 60th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Intuitive Surgical is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Intuitive Surgical's environmental score

Environmental score: 4.47/100

Intuitive Surgical's environmental score of 4.47 puts it squarely in the 3rd percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Intuitive Surgical is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Intuitive Surgical's social score

Social score: 13.18/100

Intuitive Surgical's social score of 13.18 puts it squarely in the 3rd percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Intuitive Surgical is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.

Intuitive Surgical's governance score

Governance score: 10.47/100

Intuitive Surgical's governance score puts it squarely in the 3rd percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Intuitive Surgical is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Intuitive Surgical's controversy score

Controversy score: 2/5

ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Intuitive Surgical scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Intuitive Surgical has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Intuitive Surgical, Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2020-10-01.

Total ESG score	31.63
Total ESG percentile	59.52
Environmental score	4.47
Environmental score percentile	3
Social score	13.18
Social score percentile	3
Governance score	10.47
Governance score percentile	3
Level of controversy	2

Intuitive Surgical share dividends

We're not expecting Intuitive Surgical to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Intuitive Surgical's shares ever split?

Intuitive Surgical's shares were split on a 3:1 basis on 6 October 2017. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Intuitive Surgical shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 66.7% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Intuitive Surgical shares which in turn could have impacted Intuitive Surgical's share price.

Intuitive Surgical share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Intuitive Surgical's shares have ranged in value from as little as $360.5 up to $771.62. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Intuitive Surgical's is 0.9437. This would suggest that Intuitive Surgical's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Intuitive Surgical overview

Intuitive Surgical, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets da Vinci surgical systems, and related instruments and accessories in the United States and internationally. The company's da Vinci Surgical System include surgeon's consoles, patient-side carts, 3-D vision systems, da Vinci skills simulators, da Vinci Xi integrated table motions, and Firefly fluorescence imaging products that enable surgeons to perform various surgical procedures, including gynecologic, urologic, general, cardiothoracic, and head and neck surgical procedures. It also manufactures EndoWrist instruments, such as forceps, scissors, electrocautery tools, scalpels, and other surgical tools, which incorporate wrist joints for natural dexterity for various surgical procedures. In addition, the company offers EndoWrist Stapler, a wristed stapling instrument for resection, transection, and creation of anastomoses; and EndoWrist One Vessel Sealers that are wristed single-use instruments for bipolar coagulation and mechanical transection of vessels up to 7mm in diameter and tissue bundles that fit in the jaws of the instrument. Additionally, the company sells various accessories comprising sterile drapes for ensuring sterile field during surgery; and vision products that include replacement 3D stereo endoscopes, camera heads, light guides, and other items that facilitate use of the da Vinci Surgical System, as well as Ion endoluminal system for biopsies. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Intuitive Surgical is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.963% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by insiders and 91.318% by institutions.

• How many people work for Intuitive Surgical?

  Latest data suggests 7,326 work at Intuitive Surgical.

• When does the fiscal year end for Intuitive Surgical?

  Intuitive Surgical's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Intuitive Surgical based?

  Intuitive Surgical's address is: 1020 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, 94086

• What is Intuitive Surgical's ISIN number?

  Intuitive Surgical's international securities identification number is: US46120E6023

• What is Intuitive Surgical's CUSIP number?

  Intuitive Surgical's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 46120E107