Form FWP STRYKER CORP Filed by: STRYKER CORP
Filed Pursuant to Rule 433
Registration Statement No. 333-209526
February 26, 2018
Final Term Sheet
$600,000,000 3.650% Notes due 2028
| Issuer: | Stryker Corporation | |
| Security Type: | 3.650% Notes due 2028 | |
| Principal Amount: | $600,000,000 | |
| Maturity Date: | March 7, 2028 | |
| Interest Payment Dates: | Each March 7 and September 7, commencing September 7, 2018 | |
| Coupon (Interest Rate): | 3.650% | |
| Price to Public: | 99.958% of the Principal Amount | |
| Benchmark Treasury: | 2.750% due February 15, 2028 | |
| Spread to Benchmark Treasury: | T+80 bps | |
| Benchmark Treasury Yield: | 2.855% | |
| Yield to Maturity: | 3.655% | |
| Optional Redemption Provisions: | ||
| Make-Whole Call: | Prior to December 7, 2027, T + 15 bps | |
| Par Call: | On or after December 7, 2027, at par | |
| CUSIP / ISIN: | 863667 AQ4 / US863667AQ47 | |
| Expected Ratings*: | Baa1 (stable) (Moody’s) / A (stable) (Standard & Poor’s) | |
| Trade Date: | February 26, 2018 | |
| Settlement Date**: | March 7, 2018 (T+7) | |
| Joint Book-Running Managers: | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC Wells Fargo Securities, LLC | |
| Co-Managers: | Barclays Capital Inc. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated Mizuho Securities USA LLC HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. MUFG Securities Americas Inc. U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. Citizens Capital Markets, Inc. PNC Capital Markets LLC The Williams Capital Group, L.P. | |
*Ratings may be changed, suspended or withdrawn at any time and are not a recommendation to buy, hold or sell any security. No report of any rating agency is being incorporated by reference herein.
** Pursuant to Rule 15c6-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in two business days unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers of the notes who wish to trade the notes on any date prior to the second business day before delivery thereof will be required, by virtue of the fact that the notes initially will settle in T+7, to specify an alternative settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent failed settlement.
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