Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in 3 Charts
It's still early, but Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) stock could be on track to turn in its best performance of this decade. Shares of the robotic surgical systems company are up nearly 50% so far in 2017, well above the end-of-year gains for all but one year since 2010.
Robots are all the rage these days, although Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci surgical system might not meet the purists' definition of robot. But public interest in robots doesn't fully explain why Intuitive Surgical stock has taken off this year. The following three charts, though, tell the story of the company's current -- and potentially future -- success.
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