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# Stryker cut its growth forecast as orthopaedic sales slowed, and the shares fell 6.38%
- URL: https://www.sharespective.com/stories/stryker-cut-growth-forecast-orthopaedic-sales-2026-11-02/
- Published: 2026-11-01T21:15:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-01T21:50:40.000Z
- Description: Stryker shares fell 6.38% to US$291.86 on Friday, the day after its September-quarter results. They lost 4.98% over the week.
- Author: Shaun Botha
- Tags: Health care, #story, #group-health, Stryker

Stryker shares fell 6.38% to US$291.86 on Friday, the day after its September-quarter results. They lost 4.98% over the week.

**The slowdown is in hips and knees.** Orthopaedics, the division that sells joint implants, grew 5.9% on an organic basis, which leaves out currency moves and acquisitions. It grew 8.6% in the June quarter. The rest of the company grew 9.1%.

Overall sales rose 7.7% to US$6.5 billion, short of the roughly US$6.6 billion analysts expected. Chief executive Kevin Lobo said the quarter "did fall short of our expectations".

[![Chart: Stryker's sales rose. Its market value fell back. Two scales, both from zero, in US$bn: revenue by year on the left; market value at each year end and on 30 October on the right. The value was 137.3 at the end of 2024.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/02/71/0271df32-cec6-421f-9f13-b06ab90e54c1/content/images/2026/11/chart-stryker-scales-both-zero-2026-11-02-wide-light.jpg)](https://www.sharespective.com/chart-stryker-scales-both-zero-2026-11-02/) 

This story’s chart of the day: the numbers, the dark version and the animated version are on its own page. [The chart’s page →](https://www.sharespective.com/chart-stryker-scales-both-zero-2026-11-02/)

The forecast took the bigger hit. Stryker now expects organic growth of between 6.5% and 7.0% this year. In July it was aiming for 8.3% to 9.3%.

What to watch 

Stryker's organic growth was 9.0% in the June quarter, even as it recovered from a cyberattack in March. I'd want to see whether hip and knee volumes pick up again before reading this as more than one soft quarter.

[ This story ran in Third Time Unlucky Monday 2 November’s edition, with the market snapshot, the other two stories, the numbers and the week ahead. Read the whole edition → ](https://www.sharespective.com/sharespective-2026-11-02/)