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Intuitive Surgical Inc · HEALTHCARE
Traeva scores Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG) 89 out of 100 as of Nov 15, 2026, a rating of Strong — the highest of its four bands. Its EV / EBITDA of 42.6× sits below the 49.3× its own fundamentals predict. The score measures valuation lag, trajectory, structural quality and balance-sheet risk. It describes the present rather than forecasting a share price, and is not investment advice.
Scores well across all four factors, with the price below what the fundamentals support.
Valuation gap
ISRG trades at 42.6× EV / EBITDA, against implied by its own fundamentals — .
The implied multiple comes from a rolling regression of this company's own multiple against its growth, margins and returns on capital — not from a peer group. A gap below it is what this model looks for. It is not a promise the market will close it.
What drives the score
How far price has drifted from what the fundamentals support. Weighted heaviest, because finding that gap is the whole point.
Whether revenue, margins, free cash flow and returns on capital are trending up or down.
Whether the business turns revenue into cash reliably rather than occasionally.
Whether the debt load leaves room to survive a bad year.
Wall Street's average price target is $605.08. Traeva's score is computed independently of it.
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Open the full reportHow far the price sits from what this business has actually delivered, and then three questions that often disagree with each other — the disagreement being the useful part. Every figure is shown with the inputs behind it.
Price against its own delivered record
Holding its delivered free cash flow growth of 20.0% for 10 years and discounting at 12.6%, the business works out at $221.10 to $282.49 a share. The price is $443.59. The price sits 57–101% above that range. Its actual record is 35.5%, capped at 20.0% here because sustaining more than that for a decade is very rare and projecting it would flatter the valuation. A gap this wide usually means the model is missing something the market can see — cash flow at a cyclical peak, a deteriorating business, or a liability not visible in these figures. Treat it as a question to investigate rather than a conclusion.
Growth the price assumes
What has to happen for today's price to make sense?
Today's price requires free cash flow to compound at 28.9% a year for 10 years. Over its recorded history it has delivered 35.5%, so the price assumes growth below what the business has managed so far. Sustaining 35.5% for another decade would be exceptional, so the comparison flatters the price.
Value created per dollar reinvested
Is growth worth having?
The company earns 11.9% on invested capital against a 12.6% cost of capital — it is 0.7% short. On these figures growth consumes value rather than creating it, which is the case where a rising revenue line is not good news.
Cash yield
What do you get for your money, with no model at all?
The business generates 1.6% of its market value in free cash flow each year — $1.56 for every $100 of share price. At $443.59 a share, that is about $6.91 of free cash flow per share. This needs no forecast and no model: it is cash the company produced, divided by what it costs to buy.
The risk-free rate and equity risk premium are market-wide estimates, not company facts — the premium in particular is genuinely contested, with credible estimates spanning roughly 3% to 7%. The implied growth figure is sensitive to both, which is why they are shown rather than buried. Anything marked assumed means the figure could not be measured from this company's filings.
These are measurements, not forecasts or price targets. A company can require implausible growth and still rise, or look cheap on cash flow and keep falling. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.
Traeva scores Intuitive Surgical Inc (ISRG) 89 out of 100 as of Nov 15, 2026, a rating of Strong — the highest of its four bands. Its EV / EBITDA of 42.6× sits below the 49.3× its own fundamentals predict. The score measures valuation lag, trajectory, structural quality and balance-sheet risk. It describes the present rather than forecasting a share price, and is not investment advice.
Its strongest factor is balance-sheet strength at 100 out of 100, and its weakest is valuation at 76. A headline score is an average of measurements that frequently disagree, so the individual factors are more informative than the single number.
89 out of 100 places Intuitive Surgical Inc in the strongest band of Traeva's coverage. Scores above 70 indicate a company measuring well across all four factors; below 50 indicates at least one material weakness — deteriorating trajectory, thin or unstable margins, balance-sheet strain, or a price well above what the fundamentals support. The score is not a probability and not a price target.
Scores are recomputed daily. Most day-to-day movement comes from price, because fundamentals only change when the company reports — roughly once a quarter. A score that moves without an earnings release has almost always moved because the share price did, not because the business changed.
Traeva does not answer that and is not a registered investment adviser. This report is a quantitative measurement of four specific factors drawn from public filings, published as research. It does not account for anything outside the financial statements, the model can be wrong, and a valuation gap can persist for years or close because fundamentals fell to meet the price rather than the price rising.
Data as of Nov 15, 2026
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