Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG) plunged 7.02%
to $259.46. The company reported
late Tuesday that its third-quarter net income jumped to $86.6 million or $2.14
a share, from $64.5 million, or $1.64 a share, in the comparable quarter last
year. Revenue rose 23% to $344 million.
Analysts,
on average, expected the company to report earnings of $2.10 per share on
revenue of $349.50 million.
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) went up 6.20%
to $6.34. The company reported it swung to a third-quarter profit of $190
million, or 12 cents a share, from a loss of $94 million, or 6 cents a share,
in the year-earlier period. On an adjusted basis, the company earned 19 cents a
share in the latest quarter.
Analysts,
on average, expected the company to report earnings of 6 cents per share on
revenue of $1.91 billion.
The
stock opened at $6.19 and is trading within the range of $5.95-$6.65.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) added 0.92%
to $63.87. The company reported a higher third-quarter profit, although sales
came in slightly below those of the same quarter in 2009. J&J said it
earned $3.42 billion, or $1.23 a share, compared with $3.35 billion, $1.20 a
share, for the prior year's quarter.
A poll
of analysts by FactSet Research estimated that J&J would post earnings of
$1.15 a share, on revenue of $15.24 billion.
Over the
past 52-week, the stock traded within the range of $56.86-$66.20. The stock
went down more than 1% year-to-date.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) jumped 2.69%
to $36.25. The company reported third-quarter net income rose 23% on 9.1%
higher revenue. Earnings reached $1.28 billion, or $1.14 a share, from $1.04
billion, or 89 cents, in the year-earlier period.
A survey
of analysts by FactSet produced consensus estimates of 83 cents of profit on
$23.27 billion of revenue.
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