secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC (ISRG)
CIK:        0001035267
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001035267-26-000035
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Intuitive Surgical boosts buyback to $5.0B; shareholders approve plan amendment
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- Board increased stock repurchase authorization to $5.0B aggregate, including prior remaining balance.
- Stockholders approved amendment to 2010 Incentive Award Plan, increasing authorized shares by 5M to 125.35M.
- All 10 director nominees were elected at annual meeting; each received over 273M votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with ~93.3% support (265M for, 17M against).
- PricewaterhouseCoopers ratified as independent auditor for FY 2026 with ~98.6% of votes cast.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035267/000103526726000035/0001035267-26-000035-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035267/000103526726000035/isrg-20260430.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001035267-26-000035

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