Earnings ArthroCare reported 4Q:07 revenues of $87.5 million, beating estimates by $1.7 million, representing a 25% increase over the year-ago period. Net income was $14.5 million, or $0.50 per diluted share, missing estimates by a penny and representing a 78%... more
Earnings Medtronic reported FQ2:08 revenue of $3.12 billion, beating estimates by $0.02 million and representing a 2% increase over the year-ago period. Net earnings for FQ2:08 were $666.0 million, or $0.58 per diluted share, beating estimates by $0.02 but down... more
Earnings Anika reported 3Q:07 product revenues of $7.28 million, up from $5.49 million in 3Q:06. The company attributed the sales growth to strong domestic and international sales of ORTHOVISC®. Net income for 3Q:07 was $1.8 million, or $0.16 per diluted... more
Medtronic announced today the completion of their acqusition of Kyphon. News of the closing comes earlier than expected; at the time the merger was first announced, Medtronic anticipated a 1Q:08 closing. Stockholders will receive $71.00 per share in cash for... more
Earnings Biomet reported FQ1:08 sales of $552.3 million, up 9% over the comparable quarter. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $42.9 million, down from an income of $104.4 million for FQ1:07. The company attributed the loss... more
Legal Federal prosecutors announced on Thursday the terms of a settlement with Zimmer, Depuy, Biomet, Smith & Nephew and Stryker following an investigation into physician compensation practices. Zimmer, Depuy, Biomet and Smith & Nephew entered into deferred prosecution agreements and... more
Earnings AOI Medical reported a 1H:07 loss of $1.8 million, increasing from a loss of $0.97 million in the comparable half. The company attributed the loss to increased expenses. They expect their product, the Balloon Assisted Management of Spine Fractures,... more
Earnings Large Joint: Exactech announced 2Q:07 revenue of $31.6 million, beating estimates of $29.9 million and up 19% from the comparable quarter. CEO Bill Petty attributed the growth to "acceptance of our new products and continuing success of our products... more
CMS released its final rule for the FY2008 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). As we noted when the draft rule was announced in April, ortho payments will mostly increase next year. The rule also confirms that CMS will implement new... more
Earnings Spine Kyphon reported that worldwide revenues in 1Q:07 increased 40% to $128.1 million, which includes $18.1 million in X-STOP® Interspinous Process Decompression (IPD®) sales from the St. Francis acquisition. In the U.S., revenues increased 34% to $101.1 million, while... more
Earnings Large Joints Zimmer reported income of $233.4 million, or $0.98 per share, beating estimates of $0.93. The quarter compares to a profit of $205.6 million, or $0.82 per share in 1Q:06. Revenue rose 10% to $950.2 million from $860.4... more
Earnings Kyphon Inc. announced 4Q:06 sales totaling $112.6 million, an increase of 31% over the $85.8 million in net sales reported for the 4Q:05. Net income for 4Q:06 increased 228% to $12.2 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, compared to... more
Earnings Stryker reported a 28% increase in sales of orthopedic implants and endoscopy products for 4Q:06. The Company earned $227.9 million, or 55 cents per share, meeting analysts' estimates, compared with a profit of $178.4 million, or 43 cents per... more
With a one-two punch, Kyphon is snapping up niche assets in the spine industry to expand its franchise as a leading provider of unique minimally invasive devices to spine surgeons. It's been only two weeks since Kyphon announced it's blockbuster... more
Earnings Stryker announced this week that the Board of Directors has declared a year-end cash dividend of $0.22 per share, an increase of 100% over the $0.11 dividend declared in December 2005. The dividend is payable January 31, 2007 to... more
Earnings Biologics: Orthovita reported 3Q:06 product sales came in at $11 million, up 32% compared to 3Q:05. Net loss for the quarter was $3.7 million, or a loss of $0.07 per share. The Company beat analysts' EPS estimates by $0.02,... more
Earnings: Biomet reported its 1Q:07 earnings totaled $0.44 per share (excluding the adoption of the share-based payment) which was $0.01 more than what analysts were expecting. Revenues increased by 5% to $508 million (foreign currency had a $3 million favorable... more
Appointment: Ranier Technology Limited has appointed John C. Moran to its Board of Directors. Previously, Mr. Moran was a President of Synthes Spine and a Director of Spine Solutions, Inc. Active Implants Corporation (AIC) has hired Richard Treharne, PhD. as... more
Kyphon (KYPH) reported a strong 2nd Quarter this week. Quarterly revenue broke the $100m mark, and at $101m, handily beat analysts' estimates of $98.6m. Overall, revenue was up 35% compared to the year ago period, with domestic revenue up 28%... more
Earnings Results: Biologics: Anika Therapeutics announced 2Q:06 net sales increased 11% to $7.1 million. Product revenues grew 74% while licensing, milestone and contract revenue was down 77%. The large product sales growth was partially driven by higher demand for OrthoVisc®;... more
Final results for the 26 publicly-traded orthopedic companies* in 1Q:06 showed that orthopedic sales for first quarter increased by 9.2%, as reported. Now that Medtronic has reported its spine revenues, total aggregated sales for those 26 companies came in at... more
Appointment: Scient'x USA appointed Tracy Brown as Vice President of Sales. Mr. Brown was formerly with Microtek Medical and Stryker Spine, both in the area of marketing and sales. Scient'x, SA is a HealthpointCapital portfolio company. Clinical Update: At the... more
The first group of orthopedic companies reported their 1Q:06 this week and took in $5.3 billion so far. The total aggregated revenues for the quarter were up by 7% from $4.9 billion in 1Q:05. The industry netted $637.8 million, a... more
Many orthopedic companies will be reporting their 1Q:06 results in the next few weeks. The table below provides a listing of conference call dial-in numbers and webcasts for the investment community. How the overall orthopedic industry fared in the first... more
As we reported in March, Kyphon and Dr. Harvinder Sandhu filed an IP suit against Medtronic, and now Medtronic has parried with its own lawsuit. Medtronic has countersued Kyphon, claiming Kyphoplasty infringes on 3 patents relating to balloons for use... more
Financing: BioMimetic Therapeutics, Inc. filed a registration statement for an Initial Public Offering. Earnings: Medtronic 3Q Earnings climb 23 percent. CryoLife fourth quarter 2005 revenues increased 13% over fourth quarter 2004 Gross margins for full year 2005 increased to 53%... more
The spine patent dispute du jour isn't about "555" these days: it's about "665". Today, an intellectual property lawsuit between Kyphon and Sofamor Danek filed in November of last year was unsealed (at Kyphon's request) after the two parties were... more
Kyphon announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire InnoSpine, Inc., a privately held company focused on developing and marketing its proprietary technology for the treatment of low back pain as a consequence of disc degeneration. Kyphon will... more
Kyphon is back in court. They recently filed a suit (with Dr. Harvinder Sandu) against Medtronic. The case is sealed so it is hard to know much of what the case is about, but it does indicate that the suit... more
We wrap up this quarter with aggregated earnings and sales in the public orthopedic sector of $560 million and $5 billion, respectively, as a few more companies reported this week. For 3Q:05, orthopedic sales were up by 13% ($5.0 billion... more
Earlier this morning Kyphon (Nasdaq: KYPH) shouted from the mountaintop: CMS has posted new CPT codes for Kyphoplasty which effectively brings reimbursement to a national level. The codes include percutaneous vertebral augmentation, RVUs for additional thoracic of lumbar vertebral bodies,... more
Thanks to one of our readers who reminded me that I should add international dial-in numbers to the conference calls list. Since most of the companies have already reported their earnings, I am providing you with replay information in case... more
Earnings: Please refer to the table (below) for individual company sales and earnings. It's all about earnings this week... Biologics: Clearly, the big winner this week is LifeCell Corp. who reported strong earnings on Monday stock was up 24% at... more
Today (Friday) Kyphon, Inc. stock rose 12% after it raised its financial outlook for the second quarter of this year thanks to: - Better than expected sales in both its U.S. and international operations. - Better selling and marketing efficiencies.... more
The New York Times covers (registration required) the obstacles facing evidence-based medicine in a cardiac-centric article that touches on orthopedics. Hospitals are pressuring device prices down, and TheStreet.com gives a good quick treatment to the the reimbursement issue we cover... more
We have aggregated the 4Q:04 and 3Q:04 reported revenues (includes the effects of foreign currency) for 16 public orthopedic companies. Although we would have liked to use revenue growth rates which excluded foreign currency, a majority of the companies report... more
Last week, Kyphon Inc. (Nasdaq: KYPH) met or exceeded analysts' expectations and announced net sales of $62.4 million for 4Q:04, an increase of 57% over the $39.7 million in net sales reported in 4Q:03 Earnings per fully-diluted share for 4Q:04... more
You can always tell what managers are really thinking by the order of their comments on conference calls. For the quarter just ended (September 30/2004) Kyphon reported a 59% jump in net sales $55.8 million. Earnings soared to $6.1 million,... more
On the heels of its first $50 million quarter, Rich Mott, Kyphon's CEO, predicted that his firm would post revenues between $210 and $212 million for the year ending this December. Three years ago, in 2001, Kyphon booked sales of... more
Kyphon announced this morning that its application to receive FDA approval for its PMMA bone cement product, KyphX® HV-R™ Bone Cement, has been approved. This will be the first approved PMMA bone cement for use in the spine. PMMA has... more
It was middle of the afternoon at Kyphon's headquarters, but after 6pm Eastern Standard Time when Kyphon issued an announcement that it was suing start-up company Disc-O-Tech in both U.S. District Court and at the International Trade Commission for patent... more
Orthopedic revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2004 will, we expect, rise 15% to $5.4 billion. Considering that revenues for last year's initial quarter rose 15% to a record breaking $4.7 billion, this is very impressive. In raw dollars,... more
Two years ago, in the 2001 year, Kyphon reported $36 million in sales. Approximately mid-way through the 2002 year, the company went public, selling 6 million shares at $15 each, netting $82 million. The underwriters tried, but failed to establish... more
KYPH, as it has each quarter since coming public, significantly outperformed both sales and earnings expectations last quarter. The numbers tell the story: $35.1 million in sales vs. $33.6 estimate and $20.7 million for the same period the year before.... more
Zimmer: There is no doubt in our mind that Zimmer is grabbing market share – quickly. It is clear that MIS at Zimmer is bigger than instruments and implants; it is really about (aside from improving patient outcomes) reimbursement. CEO... more
Last week we published our sales and earnings forecast as well as an analysis of future prospects for two companies, Exactech and Regeneration Technologies. We've posted the summary of our analysis for each company on First Call (the Thompson Financial... more
Earnings season starts this week with the Tuesday, April 15th release of DePuy/Acromed's first quarter results (as buried in JNJ's release) and continues until mid-May when Sofamor Danek's numbers for the April quarter (Medtronic, Sofamor Danek's parent, is on an... more
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