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GARP Research Maintains a 'Buy' on Edwards Lifesciences (EW); Hospiteal Interest in TAVI Remains High

April 30, 2012 3:24 PM EDT
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GARP Research maintains a 'Buy' on Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW).

Analyst, Alastair Mackay, said, "Edwards controls half of the growing market in its core business (heart valves), and new minimally-invasive technologies offer the potential to accelerate revenue growth and expand profitability over the next few years. Edwards prices a SAPIEN valve and delivery system at about five times as much as a surgically-implanted valve. Still, minimally-invasive delivery slightly lowers the overall cost of a valve-replacement procedure to the hospital and the third-party payer. In the U.S., Edwards should have the transcatheter-valve market to itself until at least 2014, the earliest possible date for approval of Medtronic’s (NYSE: MDT) competing CoreValve ReValving System."

For an analyst ratings summary and ratings history on Edwards Lifesciences click here. For more ratings news on Edwards Lifesciences click here.

Shares of Edwards Lifesciences closed at $82.69 yesterday.


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