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ISRG vs. DXCM, GOOG, HSIC, IDXX, ELV, EW, ITGR, JNJ, MDT, and SYK

Should you be buying Intuitive Surgical stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Intuitive Surgical include DexCom (DXCM), Alphabet (GOOG), Henry Schein (HSIC), IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX), Elevance Health (ELV), Edwards Lifesciences (EW), Integer (ITGR), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Medtronic (MDT), and Stryker (SYK).

Intuitive Surgical vs. Its Competitors

Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG) and DexCom (NASDAQ:DXCM) are both large-cap medical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, valuation and earnings.

Intuitive Surgical has a beta of 1.64, meaning that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DexCom has a beta of 1.44, meaning that its stock price is 44% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Intuitive Surgical has higher revenue and earnings than DexCom. DexCom is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intuitive Surgical, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Intuitive Surgical$8.35B21.33$2.32B$7.1769.30
DexCom$4.15B8.45$576.20M$1.3466.68

83.6% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 97.8% of DexCom shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Intuitive Surgical shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of DexCom shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Intuitive Surgical had 77 more articles in the media than DexCom. MarketBeat recorded 101 mentions for Intuitive Surgical and 24 mentions for DexCom. DexCom's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Intuitive Surgical's score of 1.03 indicating that DexCom is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Intuitive Surgical
54 Very Positive mention(s)
9 Positive mention(s)
14 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
DexCom
18 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Intuitive Surgical presently has a consensus target price of $592.05, suggesting a potential upside of 19.16%. DexCom has a consensus target price of $98.72, suggesting a potential upside of 10.49%. Given Intuitive Surgical's higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe Intuitive Surgical is more favorable than DexCom.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Intuitive Surgical
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.65
DexCom
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.90

Intuitive Surgical has a net margin of 28.51% compared to DexCom's net margin of 12.90%. DexCom's return on equity of 30.05% beat Intuitive Surgical's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Intuitive Surgical28.51% 14.56% 12.93%
DexCom 12.90%30.05%10.00%

Summary

Intuitive Surgical beats DexCom on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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ISRG vs. The Competition

MetricIntuitive SurgicalMED INSTRUMENTS IndustryMedical SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$177.07B$6.92B$5.70B$9.55B
Dividend YieldN/A1.30%4.71%4.06%
P/E Ratio69.3024.6628.1919.95
Price / Sales21.3355.56391.9467.72
Price / Cash61.8320.5636.3258.72
Price / Book9.924.708.285.77
Net Income$2.32B$174.54M$3.25B$259.21M
7 Day Performance-1.01%-3.34%-2.00%-2.40%
1 Month Performance-8.56%0.51%8.67%9.41%
1 Year Performance14.83%7.23%34.65%16.67%

Intuitive Surgical Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
ISRG
Intuitive Surgical
4.6756 of 5 stars
$496.87
+0.6%
$592.05
+19.2%
+12.0%$177.07B$8.35B69.3015,638Trending News
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
DXCM
DexCom
4.7673 of 5 stars
$89.31
+0.4%
$98.72
+10.5%
+32.4%$35.08B$4.03B66.7610,300Positive News
Insider Trade
GOOG
Alphabet
4.6142 of 5 stars
$192.90
-0.6%
$215.19
+11.6%
+14.8%$2.34T$371.40B20.53190,200Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
HSIC
Henry Schein
4.2703 of 5 stars
$70.32
-1.6%
$78.08
+11.0%
-2.0%$8.56B$12.67B21.9825,000Upcoming Earnings
IDXX
IDEXX Laboratories
3.5431 of 5 stars
$565.70
+0.1%
$557.88
-1.4%
+21.3%$45.57B$3.90B52.3811,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
ELV
Elevance Health
4.9125 of 5 stars
$285.15
-1.4%
$418.19
+46.7%
-45.5%$64.26B$189.25B12.14104,200Positive News
EW
Edwards Lifesciences
4.3412 of 5 stars
$78.60
-1.8%
$85.00
+8.1%
+26.0%$46.21B$5.65B11.3315,800Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
ITGR
Integer
3.3533 of 5 stars
$108.19
-0.3%
$140.25
+29.6%
-8.7%$3.77B$1.79B47.6511,000Earnings Report
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
4.8296 of 5 stars
$165.31
-1.8%
$174.50
+5.6%
+6.0%$399.43B$88.82B17.75138,100Trending News
MDT
Medtronic
4.6525 of 5 stars
$92.09
-0.9%
$98.19
+6.6%
+15.6%$118.23B$33.54B25.4795,000Positive News
SYK
Stryker
4.5202 of 5 stars
$400.13
-0.8%
$428.55
+7.1%
+20.2%$152.70B$23.22B54.0653,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings

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This page (NASDAQ:ISRG) was last updated on 7/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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