Stryker (NYSE:SYK) today posted results that missed the Wall Street consensus, even as the company upped its earnings guidance for the full year.
The Kalamazoo, Mich.–based orthopedic device giant reported profits of $302 million, or $0.79 per share, on sales of $3.953 billion for the three months ended March 31, 2021, for a bottom-line decline of –38.7 % on sales growth of 10.2% compared with Q1 2020.
Adjusted to exclude one-time items, earnings per share were $1.93, 6¢ behind The Street, where analysts were looking for EPS of $1.99 on sales of $3.96 billion.
“We are pleased with our results, as business picked up meaningfully in the latter part of the first quarter,” Stryker CEO Kevin Lobo said in a news release out this evening. Lobo also noted that five months after closing the $4.7 billion purchase of Wright Medical, integration is pacing ahead of expectations.
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