{"id":9,"date":"2004-09-26T14:08:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T18:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:14:19","slug":"medtronic-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/2004\/09\/26\/medtronic-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Medtronic, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box\">\n<strong>Medtronic, Inc. (MDT)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/files\/mdt.pdf\">SSG and PERT A (09-24-2004)<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;|&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=stocks%3A+mdt\">Google Stocks<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;|&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medtronic.com\">Company Website<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Medtronic is one of two stocks to consider buying during the month of October.  (The other is Health Management Associates.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Business Summary:<\/strong> Medtronic, Inc. is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest manufacturer of implantable biomedical devices, with sales to over 120 countries. Cardiac Rhythm Management products (bradycardia &#038; tachycardia) accounted for 46.6% of \u00e2\u20ac\u212203 sales; Neurological, Spinal, and Diabetes, 37.1%; Vascular products (stents), 9.3%; and Cardiac Surgery (heart valves, perfusion systems), 7.0%. Int\u00e2\u20ac\u2122l: 32.2% of \u00e2\u20ac\u212203 sales (34.2% of profits). Acq. five companies in \u00e2\u20ac\u212298. \u00e2\u20ac\u212203 depr. rate: 13.8%; R&#038;D, 9.4% of sales. Est\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d plant age: 12 years. Has 31,000 emps.; 51,500 stkhldrs. Off. &#038; dir. control 1.0% of common (7\/04 proxy). Chairman &#038; Chief Executive Officer: Arthur D. Collins, Jr. Inc.: MN. Addr.: 710 Medtronic Pkwy. N.E., Minneapolis, MN 55432. Tel.: 763-514-4000. Internet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medtronic.com\">www.medtronic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medtronic, Inc. (MDT) SSG and PERT A (09-24-2004) &nbsp;|&nbsp; Google Stocks &nbsp;|&nbsp; Company Website Medtronic is one of two stocks to consider buying during the month of October. (The other is Health Management Associates.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}