How the Street's calls on medical devices played out
Sell-side price targets on medical devices names over the last two years, checked over each firm's own horizon: 39 of 409 resolved targets (10%) were reached while they stood, 348 were replaced by the same firm first, and 22 fell short at their deadline.
5 names · 17 firms with 8+ resolved targets here · checked through 2026-10-29. Rebuilt every morning.
Firm by firm on medical devices
| # | Firm | Targets reached | Replaced early | Short | Resolved | Ratings vs sector | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wells Fargo | 5 (16%) | 26 | 0 | 31 | 2 of 5 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK |
| 2 | Truist Securities | 6 (15%) | 35 | 0 | 41 | 0 of 2 | BSX ISRG MDT SYK |
| 3 | BTIG | 3 (7%) | 39 | 0 | 42 | 1 of 4 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK |
| 4 | RBC Capital | 2 (7%) | 27 | 1 | 30 | 2 of 5 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK |
| 5 | Barclays | 1 (3%) | 31 | 0 | 32 | 3 of 5 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK |
| 6 | Citigroup | 0 (0%) | 31 | 0 | 31 | 1 of 5 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK |
| Evercore ISI Group | 4 (15%) | 23 | 0 | 27 | 1 of 4 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK | |
| Needham | 0 (0%) | 27 | 0 | 27 | 1 of 2 | BSX MDT SYK | |
| Baird | 2 (12%) | 14 | 1 | 17 | 1 of 3 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK | |
| UBS | 2 (14%) | 11 | 1 | 14 | 0 of 2 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK | |
| Piper Sandler | 1 (8%) | 10 | 2 | 13 | 1 of 4 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK | |
| TD Cowen | 2 (17%) | 9 | 1 | 12 | 0 of 1 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK | |
| Canaccord Genuity | 1 (8%) | 10 | 1 | 12 | 1 of 2 | BSX SYK | |
| Stifel | 3 (27%) | 6 | 2 | 11 | 0 of 4 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT SYK | |
| Mizuho | 3 (30%) | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 of 1 | ABT BSX ISRG MDT | |
| Raymond James | 0 (0%) | 8 | 1 | 9 | 0 of 3 | ABT BSX ISRG | |
| Bernstein | 1 (12%) | 7 | 0 | 8 | 1 of 2 | ABT ISRG MDT SYK |
Numbered firms have 30+ resolved targets in this sector and are ordered by the share reached; the rest are listed by volume, unranked. A record inside one sector is a slice of a slice: none of these counts is a measure of skill, and none carries a letter. How targets and ratings are checked →
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Every call is checked on the firm's own terms. A price target is followed until its own deadline (12 months unless the firm publishes a different horizon) and ends as reached (the stock closed at or beyond it while it stood), replaced (the same firm set a new target first) or short at deadline. A rating is compared with the stock's sector SPDR ETF on total return over the rating's life, because most big-firm ratings are relative: Overweight means "beat its peers", not "go up". Hold-type ratings are tracked, not graded. A firm is numbered only with 30+ resolved targets, and a letter prints only for a firm's whole record where an exact test separates it from a coin flip. None of this is a verdict on anyone's skill, and one day is never a grade. The full method →
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