VOL. XCIV, NO. 247
★ WIDE MOAT STOCKS COMPARISON ★
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Stock Comparison
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. vs Oracle Corporation
Compare moat strength, market structure, and segment coverage to understand how each company defends its edge.
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
ISRG · NASDAQ
Weighted average of segment moat scores, combining moat strength, durability, confidence, market structure, pricing power, and market share.
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View ISRG analysisOracle Corporation
ORCL · New York Stock Exchange
Weighted average of segment moat scores, combining moat strength, durability, confidence, market structure, pricing power, and market share.
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View ORCL analysisComparison highlights
- Moat score gap: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. leads (83 / 100 vs 56 / 100 for Oracle Corporation).
- Segment focus: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. has 3 segments (60.8% in Instruments and Accessories); Oracle Corporation has 5 segments (42.9% in Infrastructure cloud services and license support).
- Primary market structure: Monopoly vs Oligopoly. Pricing power: Strong vs Weak.
- Moat breadth: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. has 9 moat types across 4 domains; Oracle Corporation has 7 across 3.
Primary market context
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Instruments and Accessories
Proprietary robotic surgery instruments, accessories, and consumables used per procedure on the da Vinci (and Ion) installed base
Global
Hospitals and surgery centers purchasing consumables; surgeons and OR teams as end users
Consumables OEM within proprietary platform
60.8%
Oracle Corporation
Infrastructure cloud services and license support
Enterprise cloud infrastructure services (IaaS/PaaS, cloud database) plus related support
Global
Enterprises & developers
Cloud service provider (IaaS/PaaS)
42.9%
Side-by-side metrics
Moat coverage
Shared moat types
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. strengths
Oracle Corporation strengths
Segment mix
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. segments
Full profile >Systems
Quasi-Monopoly
Instruments and Accessories
Monopoly
Services
Monopoly
Oracle Corporation segments
Full profile >Applications cloud services and license support
Oligopoly
Infrastructure cloud services and license support
Oligopoly
Cloud license and on-premise license
Oligopoly
Hardware
Competitive
Services
Competitive
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