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While Intuitive Surgicals was expensive at 10x sales and a PE of 75 - just six months ago, the recent sell-off in the stock has the company at a more reasonable PE of 20, and a PS of 4. With a quarter of its valuation in cash, we discuss the only unlikely scenario in which ...

Intuitive Surgicals needs no introduction. The company’s daVinci surgical robot is allowing the company to grow at a heady rate, and added to this, ISRG makes a gamut of disposable tools [which serve as the "working end" of the robotic arm used in surgery] which need to be “renewed” for every surgery. The tools provide ...