Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Intuitive Surgical's price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
ISRG closed at $378.81 on Aug 21, 2026. The price is -2.4% from its 50-day average and -19.9% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established downtrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned -13.9%, trailing SPY by 17.0%. It remains 37.3% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessLast updated 2026-08-21 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is -2.4% from its 50-day average and -19.9% from its 200-day average. Over three months, ISRG returned -13.9% versus +3.1% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- -2.4%
- vs 200-day
- -19.9%
- From 52W high
- -37.3%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
ISRG appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 2 of 62 archived scanner sessions: 0 call-side, 2 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was -0.13, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-10 | — | #20 |
| 2026-07-09 | — | #30 |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-08-21Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.072 calls, 0.142 puts.
Curated-manager ownership
1 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Intuitive Surgical position in their latest filing, worth $37M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · ISRG | $37M | 0.06% | 93,927 | -3.5% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open ISRG Financials →How ISRG trades — the working manual
Intuitive Surgical places robotic surgery systems and earns recurring revenue from instruments, accessories and service as procedure volume grows. For the stock, system placements expand the installed base, but utilization, procedure adoption and recurring revenue per system determine the economics while new platforms bring training, manufacturing and regulatory execution risk.
What can move the tape
- 01Procedure growth by geography and specialty across the installed system base.
- 02New system placements, utilization, leasing mix and adoption of newer platforms.
- 03Recurring instruments, accessories and service revenue per procedure and system.
- 04Gross margin, manufacturing scale, research investment and cash deployment.
What can fool the read
- 01Procedure growth can slow with hospital staffing, reimbursement or elective-surgery disruptions.
- 02New robotic platforms from competitors can pressure placements, pricing or utilization.
- 03Product quality, regulatory or training issues can interrupt adoption and raise costs.
- 04A premium valuation can make strong operating growth insufficient when expectations rise faster.
Intuitive Surgical triggered 2 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-08-21 archive. The latest was ISRG on 2026-07-27: 1.5× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +3.7% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported ISRG events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-08-21 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-08-21 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-08-21 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-08-16 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-08-23 | JSON ↓ |
ISRG stock questions
Is ISRG stock in an uptrend?+
ISRG is classified in the “established downtrend” regime as of 2026-08-21: the close is -2.4% from its 50-day average and -19.9% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in ISRG mean?+
Intuitive Surgical's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the ISRG 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are ISRG's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated ISRG Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no ISRG earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.