How many sats is one Intuitive Surgical share?

507,641 sats ($422.06) at the close on October 13, 2026, or 0.00508 bitcoin.

Has Intuitive Surgical beaten bitcoin?

Measured by share price, no: a share costs 82% fewer sats than its 2019 average (in dollars: +138%). Measured by the business (cash generated per share and its growth), −18% a year in bitcoin terms, behind bitcoin's supply growth.

Did Intuitive Surgical's buybacks beat bitcoin?

No. It spent $7.2 billion buying back its own stock since 2019. Each $1 is now worth $1.35 in shares; the same $1 in bitcoin, bought at the same times, would be worth $2.57. (Per dollar: at that size the buying itself would have moved bitcoin's price.)

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Companies · Health care

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG), measured in bitcoin

One Intuitive Surgical share costs 507,641 sats today ($422.06). That's 34% more sats than a year ago, even though the dollar price fell 3.1%: bitcoin fell further. Since 2019, its shareholder return has been +19% a year in dollars, faster than the money supply grew (+6.6%), and −18% a year measured in bitcoin.

Next earnings: Tuesday, October 20 after the close.

Price in sats

507,641

What one share costs in bitcoin today ($422.06). One bitcoin is 100 million sats.

Past year, in bitcoin

+34% −3.1% in $

More sats per share than a year ago. Above zero means the stock beat simply holding bitcoin.

Shareholder return since COVID

+19%/yr −18%/yr in ₿

Cash the business produces per share, plus how fast that grows, since 2019. Beat new dollars (+6.6%/yr); trailed bitcoin (+1.8%/yr new supply).

Buybacks vs bitcoin

$1.35 vs $2.57

What each $1 it spent buying back its own stock since 2019 is worth today, versus the same $1 in bitcoin bought at the same times. Bitcoin wins.

Quarterly revenue would buy

0.19% of all bitcoin

$2.9 billion of revenue in the quarter to Jun 30, 2026, at that quarter's average price: ₿40,377 of the 21 million that will ever exist.

Intuitive Surgical share price since 2019, in dollars and in bitcoin, both indexed to 100 — Both lines start at 100 (the 2019 average). The gap between them is what measuring in bitcoin changes.

How it compares: health care

Sorted by the past year in bitcoin. Within the same window every stock is divided by the same bitcoin price, so the order matches dollars; what bitcoin adds is the line at zero: above it, the stock beat holding bitcoin.

Company	Sats per share	Past year, ₿	Vs 2019 avg, ₿	Shareholder return, ₿
Merck MRK	170,769	+130%	−86%	−22%/yr
Lilly LLY	1,403,043	+97%	−25%	–
Amgen AMGN	496,552	+96%	−84%	−24%/yr
Johnson & Johnson JNJ	299,021	+81%	−86%	−26%/yr
Bristol Myers Squibb BMY	68,161	+81%	−91%	−21%/yr
Thermo Fisher Scientific TMO	797,485	+75%	−82%	−22%/yr
Gilead Sciences GILD	177,914	+74%	−83%	−20%/yr
AbbVie ABBV	329,992	+65%	−74%	−26%/yr
Pfizer PFE	34,123	+59%	−95%	−26%/yr
CVS Health CVS	105,303	+55%	−89%	−19%/yr
Danaher DHR	268,025	+51%	−85%	−23%/yr
UnitedHealth UNH	454,358	+46%	−89%	−19%/yr
Medtronic MDT	111,870	+35%	−93%	−24%/yr
Intuitive Surgical ISRG	507,641	+34%	−82%	−18%/yr
Abbott Laboratories ABT	123,416	+8.3%	−90%	−21%/yr

Questions

How many sats is one Intuitive Surgical share?: 507,641 sats ($422.06) at the close on October 13, 2026, or 0.00508 bitcoin.
Has Intuitive Surgical beaten bitcoin?: Measured by share price, no: a share costs 82% fewer sats than its 2019 average (in dollars: +138%). Measured by the business (cash generated per share and its growth), −18% a year in bitcoin terms, behind bitcoin's supply growth.
Did Intuitive Surgical's buybacks beat bitcoin?: No. It spent $7.2 billion buying back its own stock since 2019. Each $1 is now worth $1.35 in shares; the same $1 in bitcoin, bought at the same times, would be worth $2.57. (Per dollar: at that size the buying itself would have moved bitcoin's price.)

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