If you don’t know much about Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG), you might want to remedy that. It’s a very impressive growth stock. Its past performance is likely to wow you, and its future looks very promising.
Over the past decade, Intuitive Surgical stock has grown in value at an average annual rate of 23%. Over the past three years, that growth rate ramped up to nearly 30%! If you had invested $10,000 in Intuitive a decade ago, your stake would be worth roughly $80,610 today. The S&P 500 index, in contrast, averaged 13.6% in that period, turning $10,000 into $33,720 — a still-quite-solid performance.
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