The company’s reported net income of $828 million or 83 cents a share were down 8.2% and 6.7%, respectively, on a year-over-year basis.

Economists and businessmen agree with the French economist Thomas Piketty, that inequality today is close to that of the era of Robber Barons.

Stryker Corporation posted nearly 10.6% rise in adjusted earnings per share to $1.15 in the third quarter of 2014 from $1.04 in the prior-year quarter and surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny.

Stryker (SYK) is a rarity in the current market: a strong business with a stock that is still attractively valued.

For years, the US has been enacting tax policies that sabotage its global economic competitiveness.

Rapid growth in the medical device industry and changes in the regulatory environment have propelled valuations in the medtech sector to the high end of the range.