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St. Jude Medical
Former type
Publicly traded
Industry Medical devices
Founded Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1976
Founder Manuel A. Villafana
Defunct 2017
Headquarters Little Canada, Minnesota
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Michael T. Rousseau, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
John C. Heinmiller, Executive Vice President
Michael T. Rousseau, Chief Operating Officer
Donald J. Zurbay, Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Products Cardiac rhythm management devices
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
Neuromodulation devices
Revenue $5.6 billion (2014) Increase
Total assets $10.207 billion (2014) Increase
Total equity $4.2 billion (2014) Increase
Number of employees
18,000
Website www.sjm.com

St. Jude Medical, Inc. was an American global medical device company headquartered in Little Canada, Minnesota, U.S., a suburb of Saint Paul. The company had more than 20 principal operations and manufacturing facilities worldwide with products sold in more than 100 countries. Its major markets include the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The company was named after Jude the Apostle, the patron saint of lost causes.

St. Jude Medical was founded in 1976 and went public in 1977, and the company has been listed in the Fortune 500 every year since 2010. The company was acquired by Abbott Laboratories in January 2017.

Michael T. Rousseau served as the company's president and chief executive officer until its acquisition by Abbott

St. Jude Medical was founded in 1976 to further develop bi-leaflet artificial heart valves, which were originally created in 1972 at the University of Minnesota. St. Jude Medical's bi-leaflet valve was developed in large part by Dr. Demetre Nicoloff of the University of Minnesota and St. Jude Medical employee Don Hanson.

Company founder Manny Villafana took St. Jude Medical public in February 1977. In October of that year, Dr. Nicoloff implanted the company's first artificial heart valve in a human patient. St. Jude Medical's new heart valve was coated in pyrolytic carbon, which helped the valve prevent blood clotting.

St. Jude Medical founding chief operating officer LaVerne Rees became chief executive officer in 1981. Shortly after his appointment as St. Jude Medical CEO, Rees directed the company to begin development of its own carbon coating. This decision led to a legal battle with CarboMedics, the sole supplier of carbon coating for the company's heart valves. The St. Jude Medical board reassigned Rees in late 1984 after the legal dispute continued.

In 1985, Lawrence Lehmkuhl replaced Rees as president and CEO of St. Jude Medical. Lehmkuhl had previously served as a division president at American Hospital Supply Corporation. Shortly after the appointment, St. Jude Medical settled its lawsuit with CarboMedics. The two companies also entered into an agreement that allowed St. Jude Medical to continue developing and producing limited quantities of its own carbon coating.

In 1986, the first St. Jude Medical heart valve created with the company’s own carbon coating technology was implanted into a human in Germany. Later that year, St. Jude Medical expanded into tissue heart valves with its acquisition of BioImplant.

The company established its International Division, located in Brussels, Belgium, in 1990. In April 1991, St. Jude Medical engaged in a joint venture with Hancock Jaffe Laboratories to create Heart Valve Company. The joint venture was formed to design and market new tissue heart valves for the American market. The first Heart Valve Company tissue heart valve was implanted in a human patient in 1994.

In March 1993, Ronald Matricaria, a former president of Eli Lilly & Company's North American division, replaced Lehmkuhl as president and CEO of St. Jude Medical. Lehmkuhl, who had presided over a ninefold increase in annual sales during his tenure as CEO, was named chairman of the St. Jude Medical board.

Matricaria pushed for increasing diversification and expanded St. Jude Medical's acquisition hunt. In June 1994, the company announced that it would acquire the Pacesetter, Inc., the heart pacemaker division of Siemens AG, for $500 million. At the time of its acquisition by St. Jude Medical, Pacesetter was the second largest pacemaker manufacturer worldwide.

In January 1996, St. Jude Medical further diversified its business when it acquired Minnetonka, Minnesota-based Daig Corporation for $425 million. Daig Corporation manufactured cardiac catheters for diagnostic and therapeutic uses. Also in January of that year, St. Jude Medical became the sole owner of Heart Valve Company when it purchased Hancock Jaffe Laboratories' 50% share in the joint venture. St. Jude Medical acquired Biocor Industria, a Brazilian manufacturer of tissue heart valves, in September 1996.

In 1997, St. Jude Medical acquired Ventritex, a Sunnyvale, California-based manufacturer of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for $352 million. At the time of its acquisition, Ventritex was the third-largest manufacturer of defibrillators.

In February 1999, St. Jude Medical acquired Tyco International's Angio-Seal business. Angio-Seal manufactured collagen-based plugs to close arterial holes made during arterial catheter procedures. Matricaria stepped down as St. Jude Medical CEO in March 1999. He was replaced by Terry Shepherd, who had served as president of St. Jude Medical's heart valve business since 1994. Matricaria retained chairmanship of the St. Jude Medical board.

In 2004, St. Jude Medical CEO Terry Shepherd retired. The company's stock had increased 277% during his tenure as CEO. St. Jude Medical COO Daniel Starks was appointed to replace Shepherd as the company's CEO. Starks had previously served as chief executive officer of Daig Corporation from 1986-1996, when St. Jude Medical acquired the company. Starks had been retained by St. Jude Medical and had served as company chief operating officer since 2001.

In January 2005, St. Jude Medical acquired Saint Paul, Minnesota-based Endocardial Solutions for $272 million. Endocardial Solutions manufactured diagnostic and therapeutic devices used to treat atrial fibrillation. Later that year the company acquired Plano, Texas-based Advanced Neuromodulation Systems for $1.3 billion. At the time of its acquisition, Advanced Neuromodulation Systems was the second-largest supplier of devices that use electrotherapy to treat chronic pain and nerve disorders.

In 2008, St. Jude Medical acquired MediGuide, an Israeli company that developed technology that uses tiny sensors to locate medical devices inside of a patient's body and increase the amount of information available to a doctor during medical procedures.

St. Jude Medical acquired AGA Medical for $1.3 billion in October 2010. AGA Medical was a Plymouth, Minnesota-based company that manufactured products that treat heart defects, including plugs and patches that fix holes and other cardiac defects. In 2010 the company also acquired LightLab Imaging, a company that developed optical coherence tomography technology that helps doctors treat heart disease.

In 2010, St. Jude Medical invested in an option to acquire CardioMEMS Inc., a medical device company that developed a wireless sensing and communication technology to monitor pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) in heart failure patients. CardioMEMS Inc. was acquired by St. Jude Medical in May 2014.

In August 2012, St. Jude Medical reorganized its business operations. The company folded its four product divisions into two operating units: the implantable electronic systems division; and the cardiovascular and ablation technologies division. The company also centralized other functions including the marketing, information technology and legal departments. St. Jude Medical's reorganization coincided with layoffs of about 5% of the company's global workforce.

In 2013, St. Jude Medical acquired Endosense, a Swiss company that developed a catheter that measures the force a doctor places on a patient's heart wall during a catheter ablation procedure. St. Jude Medical paid $130 million for the company.

In June 2013, St. Jude Medical entered into a series of agreements under which the company made a $40 million equity investment in Spinal Modulation, Inc. In May 2015, the company completed the acquisition of Spinal Modulation, developer of the Axium Neurostimulator System.

St. Jude Medical acquired Nanostim Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based privately owned developer of miniaturized, leadless pacemakers, for $123.5 million in October 2013. The acquisition followed the approval of Nanostim's leadless pacemaker by the European Union. St. Jude Medical had secured the exclusive right to acquire Nanostim with a May 2011 investment in the start-up.

St. Jude Medical continued the restructuring it started in 2014 with its consolidation of the company's two operating units—the implantable electronic systems and the cardiovascular and ablation technologies units—into single research and development division. The company also consolidated its worldwide manufacturing and supply chain operations into a second division.

In July 2015, the company announced its intention to acquire heart-device manufacturer Thoratec Corporation for $3.4 billion. The acquisition was completed in October 2015.

In September 2015, St. Jude Medical announced that Daniel Starks would retire as chairman, president, and chief executive officer. On January 1, 2016, Michael T. Rousseau succeeded Starks as president, CEO and a member of the St. Jude Medical Board of Directors. Starks would remain executive chairman of the board of directors.

In late April 2016, Abbott Laboratories announced it would acquire St. Jude Medical for $25 billion ($46.75 in cash & 0.8708 shares of Abbott common stock, equating to an approximate value of $85 per share).

On January 5th, 2017, Abbott announced that it had completed its $25 billion acquisition of St. Jude Medical.

The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):

St. Jude Medical
(Est 1976)

Pacesetter, Inc.
(Acq 1994)

Daig Corporation
(Acq 1996)

Heart Valve Company
(Acq remaining 50% from joint venture with Hancock Jaffe Laboratories' 1996)

Biocor Industria
(Acq 1996)

Ventritex
(Acq 1997)

Tyco International
(Angio-Seal div, Acq 1999)

Endocardial Solutions
(Acq 2005)

Advanced Neuromodulation Systems
(Acq 2005)

MediGuide
(Acq 2008)

AGA Medical
(Acq 2010)

LightLab Imaging
(Acq 2010)

CardioMEMS Inc.
(Acq 2014)

Endosense
(Acq 2013)

Spinal Modulation
(Acq 2015)

Nanostim Inc
(Acq 2013)

Apica Cardiovascular Limited
(Acq 2014)

Levitronix
(Acq 2011)

Getinge Group
(Heart pump technology div, Acq 2014)

Thermo Cardiosystems
(Acq 2010)

St. Jude Medical manufactures implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD); pacemakers; electrophysiology catheters; vascular closure products; cardiac mapping and visualization systems; optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems; structural heart repair products; and neurostimulation devices. The company's operations are divided into two divisions: research and development; and manufacturing and supply chain.

St. Jude Medical also operates six technology centers located in Brussels, Belgium, Beijing, China, Tokyo, Japan, Austin, Texas, St. Paul, Minnesota and Sylmar, California. These centers offer training to physicians and allow them to simulate patient procedures using St. Jude Medical devices and technologies.

The company also manufactures implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and implanted cardiac resynchronization devices (CRT-Ds). The ICDs and CRT-Ds use quadripolar lead technology, which utilizes four electrodes on a single lead to pace multiple locations on the left side of the heart.

In 2013, the company began marketing the Ilumen Optis device, which is a diagnostic and assessment tool for patients with coronary artery disease. The device uses fractional flow reserve for measuring intra-arterial pressure and optical coherence tomography technology, which allows doctors to visually examine inside a patient's arteries.

St. Jude Medical produces MediGuide, a cardiac navigation and visualization technology that provides real-time fluoroscopic images. The system also gives doctors the ability to locate devices that are implanted with MediGuide-enabled sensors. MediGuide reduces the duration of a patients' radiation exposure during cardiovascular procedures.

In October 2013, the company acquired and began developing Nanostim leadless pacemakers. Nanostim technology consists of a miniaturized pacemaker implanted by a percutaneous, catheter-based procedure and placed into the heart. They are designed without the requirement for a lead, the thin wires inserted through a vein which connect the generator to the heart, or surgical pocket.

In June 2014, St. Jude Medical acquired and began developing CardioMEMS HF System, a wireless pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) monitoring technology. The wireless monitoring technology is used to assess cardiac performance via measurement of PAP and can be placed into the pulmonary artery.

In December 2010, St. Jude Medical voluntarily stopped selling its Riata and Riata ST line of defibrillator leads over concerns that the leads were susceptible to insulation abrasion. The Food and Drug Administration issued a recall of the leads in November 2011. In May 2013, Population Health Research Institute (PHRI), an academic health science research institute, conducted an independent analysis of data received from ongoing prospective registries that monitor the performance of the Durata and Riata ST ICD leads. The results of the analysis found that the insulated leads had a 99.8 percent rate of freedom from all-cause insulation abrasion at 5 years.

In January 2013, the Food and Drug Administration sent St. Jude Medical a warning letter detailing concerns regarding processes at the company's Sylmar, California facility. The letter was sent following inspections of the plant in September and October 2012. The letter did not raise any safety concerns about St. Jude Medical products.

That same month the company sent the Food and Drug Administration a 34-page letter detailing the company's efforts to correct problems found during the October inspection.

In 2014 a security vulnerability in St. Jude's pacemakers was reported by MedSec Holdings Ltd and confirmed by the FDA.

Q reports

Period Date Adjusted Actuals EPS GAAP EPS

Ratings

2016-07-11 Downgrade Leerink Swann Outperform to Market Perform
2016-05-11 Downgrade Barclays Overweight to Equal Weight $74.00 to $80.00
2016-05-11 Downgrade Barclays PLC Overweight to Equal Weight $74.00 to $80.00
2016-05-10 Downgrade SunTrust Buy to Neutral $70.00 to $80.00
2016-05-10 Downgrade SunTrust Banks Inc. Buy to Neutral $70.00 to $80.00
2016-05-03 Downgrade Credit Suisse Outperform to Neutral $67.00 to $81.00
2016-05-03 Downgrade Credit Suisse Group AG Outperform to Neutral $67.00 to $81.00
2016-05-02 Downgrade Morgan Stanley Overweight to Equal Weight $67.00 to $81.00
2016-05-02 Reiterated Rating Argus Hold
2016-04-30 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Hold
2016-04-30 Reiterated Rating Wells Fargo Hold
2016-04-30 Reiterated Rating Wells Fargo & Co. Hold
2016-04-29 Reiterated Rating JPMorgan Chase & Co. Overweight to Neutral $66.00 to $82.50
2016-04-29 Downgrade William Blair Outperform to Market Perform
2016-04-29 Downgrade Needham & Company LLC Buy to Hold
2016-04-28 Downgrade JPMorgan Chase & Co. Overweight to Neutral
2016-04-28 Downgrade Piper Jaffray Overweight to Neutral
2016-04-28 Downgrade Piper Jaffray Cos. Overweight to Neutral
2016-04-23 Reiterated Rating Leerink Swann Buy
2016-04-21 Reiterated Rating Wedbush Outperform $70.00
2016-04-20 Reiterated Rating Needham & Company LLC Buy $70.00 to $75.00
2016-04-20 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Hold
2016-04-18 Downgrade BTIG Research Buy to Neutral
2016-04-15 Reiterated Rating Bank of America Buy $66.00
2016-04-15 Reiterated Rating Bank of America Corp. Buy $66.00
2016-03-28 Boost Price Target Oppenheimer Market Perform $57.00 to $67.00
2016-03-28 Boost Price Target Leerink Swann Outperform $62.00 to $75.00
2016-03-28 Boost Price Target Jefferies Group Hold $55.00 to $65.00
2016-03-28 Upgrade Cowen and Company Market Perform to Outperform $66.00 to $73.00
2016-03-28 Boost Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $42.00 to $51.00
2016-03-28 Boost Price Target BMO Capital Markets Outperform $66.00 to $73.00
2016-03-28 Boost Price Target Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. Market Perform $57.00 to $67.00
2016-03-16 Initiated Coverage Nomura Buy $64.00
2016-03-16 Initiated Coverage Nomura Holdings Inc. Buy $64.00
2016-02-17 Reiterated Rating Wedbush Outperform $70.00
2016-02-08 Reiterated Rating Needham & Company LLC Buy $70.00
2016-02-08 Upgrade Canaccord Genuity Sell to Hold $54.00
2016-02-08 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Market Perform $64.00
2016-01-28 Lower Price Target Barclays Overweight $73.00 to $71.00
2016-01-28 Lower Price Target BMO Capital Markets Market Perform $61.00 to $60.00
2016-01-28 Lower Price Target Oppenheimer Market Perform $72.00 to $64.00
2016-01-28 Lower Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $59.00 to $54.00
2016-01-28 Reiterated Rating Needham & Company LLC Buy $70.00
2016-01-28 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Hold
2016-01-25 Lower Price Target RBC Capital Sector Perform $66.00 to $57.00
2016-01-25 Lower Price Target Royal Bank Of Canada Sector Perform $66.00 to $57.00
2016-01-21 Reiterated Rating Needham & Company LLC Buy $85.00 to $71.00
2016-01-19 Lower Price Target JPMorgan Chase & Co. $72.00 to $64.00
2016-01-19 Lower Price Target BMO Capital Markets Market Perform $68.00 to $61.00
2016-01-19 Downgrade Wells Fargo Outperform to Market Perform
2016-01-17 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Sell $59.00
2016-01-15 Lower Price Target Deutsche Bank Hold $65.00 to $64.00
2016-01-15 Lower Price Target Deutsche Bank AG Hold $65.00 to $64.00
2016-01-14 Lower Price Target Barclays Overweight $75.00 to $73.00
2016-01-07 Initiated Coverage SunTrust Buy to Buy $73.00
2016-01-07 Reiterated Rating BTIG Research Buy $69.00
2016-01-04 Lower Price Target Sterne Agee CRT Buy $81.00 to $78.00
2015-12-07 Lower Price Target Leerink Swann Outperform $85.00 to $80.00
2015-11-23 Reiterated Rating Barclays Overweight $78.00 to $75.00
2015-11-13 Lower Price Target Sterne Agee CRT Buy $85.00 to $81.00
2015-11-12 Reiterated Rating BTIG Research Buy $69.00
2015-10-22 Reiterated Rating Barclays Buy $78.00
2015-10-22 Reiterated Rating Credit Suisse Buy $75.00
2015-10-22 Lower Price Target RBC Capital Sector Perform $75.00 to $66.00
2015-10-22 Downgrade Stifel Nicolaus Buy to Hold
2015-10-22 Reiterated Rating Needham & Company LLC Buy $85.00
2015-10-22 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Sell $64.00
2015-10-21 Reiterated Rating BTIG Research Buy $73.00
2015-10-09 Lower Price Target BMO Capital Markets $81.00 to $73.00
2015-10-05 Reiterated Rating Deutsche Bank Hold
2015-10-05 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Sell $64.00
2015-09-15 Reiterated Rating Wedbush Buy $87.00
2015-09-06 Reiterated Rating BTIG Research Buy
2015-09-02 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Market Perform $79.00
2015-09-01 Reiterated Rating Evercore ISI Hold $80.00
2015-08-29 Reiterated Rating Deutsche Bank Hold
2015-08-28 Reiterated Rating S&P Equity Research Buy $92.00
2015-08-10 Reiterated Rating Credit Suisse Buy
2015-08-09 Reiterated Rating BTIG Research Buy $81.00
2015-07-23 Reiterated Rating Evercore ISI Hold $77.50 to $80.00
2015-07-23 Boost Price Target Barclays Overweight $84.00 to $86.00
2015-07-23 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Sell $64.00
2015-07-23 Boost Price Target Stifel Nicolaus Buy $81.00 to $89.00
2015-07-23 Downgrade Deutsche Bank Buy to Hold $76.00 to $77.00
2015-07-23 Downgrade BMO Capital Markets Outperform to Market Perform $80.00 to $81.00
2015-07-23 Boost Price Target RBC Capital Sector Perform $71.00 to $75.00
2015-07-22 Reiterated Rating BTIG Research Buy $81.00
2015-07-21 Reiterated Rating Needham & Company LLC Strong-Buy $86.00 to $91.00
2015-07-20 Boost Price Target Cowen and Company Outperform $82.00 to $86.00
2015-07-08 Upgrade Wells Fargo & Co. Market Perform to Outperform
2015-07-08 Upgrade Wells Fargo Market Perform to Outperform
2015-06-04 Set Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $64.00
2015-05-26 Initiated Coverage Evercore ISI Hold $78.50
2015-04-24 Initiated Coverage Wedbush Outperform to Positive $77.00 to $82.00
2015-04-23 Boost Price Target Piper Jaffray Overweight $74.00 to $84.00
2015-04-23 Boost Price Target Jefferies Group Hold $69.00 to $73.00
2015-04-23 Boost Price Target Deutsche Bank Buy $74.00 to $76.00
2015-04-23 Boost Price Target Barclays Overweight $78.00 to $84.00
2015-04-23 Boost Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $54.00 to $64.00
2015-04-23 Boost Price Target Stifel Nicolaus Buy $73.00 to $81.00
2015-04-23 Upgrade Credit Suisse Neutral to Outperform $74.00 to $84.00
2015-04-22 Set Price Target Needham & Company LLC Buy $86.00
2015-04-13 Upgrade Credit Suisse Underperform to Neutral $74.00
2015-03-18 Downgrade Wells Fargo & Co. Outperform to Market Perform
2015-03-18 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Sell $54.00
2015-03-18 Downgrade Wells Fargo Outperform to Market Perform
2015-03-17 Downgrade Credit Suisse Outperform to Underperform $74.00
2015-02-24 Downgrade Credit Suisse Outperform to Underperform $74.00
2015-02-10 Upgrade Sterne Agee CRT Neutral to Buy $77.00
2015-02-09 Reiterated Rating William Blair Buy
2015-02-09 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Sell $54.00
2015-02-09 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Market Perform $70.00
2015-01-29 Reiterated Rating BTIG Research Buy $75.00
2015-01-29 Boost Price Target Jefferies Group Hold $63.00 to $69.00
2015-01-29 Lower Price Target Credit Suisse Buy $76.00 to $74.00
2015-01-29 Lower Price Target CRT Capital Buy $80.00 to $78.00
2015-01-16 Boost Price Target Needham & Company LLC Strong-Buy $78.00 to $84.00
2014-12-29 Set Price Target Wedbush Buy $77.00
2014-12-22 Set Price Target BTIG Research Buy $77.00
2014-12-12 Boost Price Target Credit Suisse Outperform $70.00 to $74.00
2014-11-21 Upgrade Cowen and Company Market Perform to Outperform $66.00 to $73.00
2014-10-30 Reiterated Rating Stifel Nicolaus Buy $66.00 to $72.00
2014-10-16 Lower Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $51.00 to $47.00
2014-10-16 Lower Price Target Stifel Nicolaus Buy $75.00 to $66.00
2014-09-30 Initiated Coverage Needham & Company LLC Strong-Buy to Strong-Buy $78.00
2014-07-29 Initiated Coverage Sterne Agee CRT Neutral $74.00
2014-07-17 Reiterated Rating JPMorgan Chase & Co. Overweight $74.00 to $81.00
2014-07-17 Reiterated Rating Barclays Overweight $75.00 to $78.00
2014-07-17 Reiterated Rating Citigroup Inc. Sell $53.00 to $57.00
2014-07-17 Boost Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $47.00 to $51.00
2014-07-17 Boost Price Target BMO Capital Markets $78.00
2014-07-14 Boost Price Target Leerink Swann Outperform $75.00 to $80.00
2014-07-07 Initiated Coverage CRT Capital Average to Buy $80.00
2014-05-29 Reiterated Rating Wells Fargo & Co. Average
2014-05-29 Reiterated Rating Wells Fargo Average
2014-05-09 Reiterated Rating Morgan Stanley Overweight $75.00
2014-04-21 Reiterated Rating Citigroup Inc. Sell $53.00
2014-04-17 Reiterated Rating Deutsche Bank Buy $78.00
2014-04-17 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Hold $64.00
2014-04-17 Reiterated Rating JPMorgan Chase & Co. Overweight $74.00
2014-04-17 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Sell $51.00 to $47.00
2014-02-11 Downgrade Raymond James Outperform to Market Perform
2014-02-10 Upgrade Stifel Hold to Buy $75
2014-02-10 Reiterated Rating Deutsche Bank Buy $74.00
2014-02-10 Upgrade William Blair Market Perform to Outperform
2014-02-10 Upgrade Stifel Nicolaus Hold to Buy $75.00
2014-01-23 Boost Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $40.00 to $51.00
2014-01-14 Boost Price Target Wedbush $62.00 to $73.00
2014-01-09 Reiterated Rating Barclays Overweight $65.00 to $72.00
2014-01-07 Initiated Coverage BTIG Research Buy
2014-01-07 Upgrade RBC Capital Underperform to Sector Perform $44.00 to $64.00
2014-01-06 Upgrade Morgan Stanley Equal Weight to Overweight $75.00
2013-12-16 Upgrade BMO Capital Markets Market Perform to Outperform $59.00 to $66.00
2013-12-11 Boost Price Target Barclays Overweight $63.00 to $65.00
2013-11-05 Downgrade Sanford C. Bernstein Outperform to Market Perform $64.00 to $62.00
2013-10-17 Boost Price Target RBC Capital Underperform $40.00 to $44.00
2013-10-17 Boost Price Target Credit Suisse Outperform $55.00 to $60.00
2013-10-17 Boost Price Target BMO Capital Markets Market Perform $52.00 to $59.00
2013-10-17 Boost Price Target Barclays Overweight $61.00 to $63.00
2013-10-17 Boost Price Target Canaccord Genuity Sell $40.00 to $42.00
2013-10-14 Upgrade Cowen and Company Underperform to Market Perform $38.00 to $53.00
2013-10-10 Boost Price Target Wedbush Outperform $57.00 to $60.00
2013-09-23 Boost Price Target Barclays Overweight $57.00 to $61.00
2013-05-28 Downgrade Canaccord Genuity Hold to Sell
2013-05-16 Reiterated Mizuho Buy $48 to $54
2013-04-09 Downgrade RBC Capital Mkts Sector Perform to Underperform
2013-02-04 Reiterated Mizuho Buy $46 to $48
2016-07-11 Downgrade Leerink Swann Outperform to Market Perform
2016-05-11 Downgrade Barclays Overweight to Equal Weight $74.00 to $80.00
2016-05-11 Downgrade Barclays PLC Overweight to Equal Weight $74.00 to $80.00
2016-05-10 Downgrade SunTrust Buy to Neutral $70.00 to $80.00
2016-05-10 Downgrade SunTrust Banks Inc. Buy to Neutral $70.00 to $80.00

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