Hansen Medical (HNSN) the Next Big Winner?

Dr. Frederic H. Moll


Here are some quick facts about Dr. Moll:

• Co-Founder of Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
• Director of MAKO Surgical (MAKO)
• Co-Founder of Hansen Medical (HNSN)

For more on Dr. Frederic H. Moll, click here.

Below you can see the share price performance of both ISRG and MAKO (all from Yahoo! Finance).

Above shows you a 1,732% return since 2002

Above shows a 317% return since 2009

Three Apples From the Same Tree:

ISRG, MAKO, and HNSN are all basically the same thing (at least to an investor).  All three companies have patents for robots that perform surgeries with better precision and accuracy than anything else on the market.  Even better, the surgeries performed by the robots are both very common and very expensive!  The quality of the robots, combined with the commonality and price of the surgeries, lead to huge profits, which in turn lead to great profits for investors (just take a look at the charts above!).

Brief Description of Hansen Medical

Hansen Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical robotics designed for accurate positioning, manipulation, and stable control of catheters and catheter-based technologies.

-Fidelity.com

Below is a short video of Hansen Medical.  If you are receiving this via email, please click this link.

Official Recommendation:

As of right now, buying stock in Hansen Medical is too risky.  However, like Zipcar, I will be monitoring Hansen to see if a good investment opportunity arises.  Stay posted!

Buy Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)

Recent Share Price Increase

ISRG shares rose over 15% last Friday because of better than expected earnings expectations.  Is the share price too high to buy?  Conventional wisdom would say yes, however, I believe that ISRG is still a great buy.


Intuitive Surgical's Business

As you might have guessed, ISRG is in the medical surgery business.  ISRG has patented a robot called the da Vinci Robot that performs different types of surgeries.  The da Vinci Robot enables surgeries to be performed with maximum efficiency.  You could imagine that people are willing to pay big money to get this machine to perform their surgeries.

Key Financial Data

Intuitive Surgical is a fast growing and very profitable business with year to year revenue growth of over 20%, a profit margin of over 27%, and Return on Equity of over 20%.

For more on ISRG and the da Vinci Robot, please view the video below (if you are receiving this via email you can click on this link)

 Michael R Caligiuri owns shares of Intuitive Surgical