The contrasting fortunes of Envista and Smiledirectclub
Two dental companies go public inside a week, with very different results.
Stryker spends $500m to re-up on robots
Deal is the fifth largest robotics surgery purchase ever, and the second big move from Stryker.
The extremes converge in big medtech’s hiring practices
Intuitive Surgical makes the most money per employee – but the title of “most improved” goes to Philips.
$1bn Corindus deal gets Healthineers off the acquisition blocks
Vascular robotics is growing fast and Corindus is the leader here, but Healthineers will need an aggressive sales plan.
Livongo enters the medtech float hall of fame
The deal is 2019’s second-biggest medtech flotation, and the fourth-biggest ever.
Big cap medtech comes roaring back
Exact Sciences finds that where there’s muck there’s brass, but specialisation does not work as well for Abiomed.
Medtech IPOs rocketed just as stock markets faltered
The value of listings hit a new quarterly high courtesy of Guardant and Axonics.
Medtechs saw little advantage in scale in 2018
Big medtech is keeping its purse-strings closed – but private equity sees value in subsidiaries.
The new league of imaging companies remaking the market
Since becoming a pure-play health tech group Philips has been buying like crazy. Might Siemens Healthineers and GE Healthcare join in?
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