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Earnings Winners & Losers: BSX, BCR, EW, PHG, SYK, TFX, TMO

 
• By Tina Tan

The earnings season is now in full swing with more large-cap medtech stocks releasing their quarterly results. This week we spotlight cardiology market leaders Boston Scientific and Edwards Lifesciences, big ortho hitter Stryker, specialty diagnostics provider Thermo Fisher, and diversified players such as Philips, Bard and Teleflex. But which among them are this season's earnings winners and losers?

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Medtech quarterly earnings • Source: shutterstock.com

This week saw several medtech sector leaders put out their quarterly earnings and performances, and at first glance they look to be solid overall. Among the list of large-cap players listed below (see Table 1), none reported shrinking revenue while net incomes look to have widened comfortably. Boston Scientific, Edwards Lifesciences and Stryker all reported double-digit topline growth for the third quarter, while CR Bard, Philips HealthTech. Teleflex and Thermo Fisher's specialty diagnostics business reported more modest, single-digit increases. However, a deeper dive shows not all is what it seems. These are who we believe to be the real winners and losers:

CR Bard Inc. (BCR) has raised its financial guidance for 2016 again following an encouraging third quarter which saw the company beat analysts' expectations. Q3 sales went up 9%...

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