Medtronic's Cautious U.S. Market Entry with HUGO: Hold Rating Amid Uncertain ImpactWe rate Medtronic shares Hold. After multiple challenging post-Covid years, Medtronic is now more stable but still a “show-me” story. With the company’s revenue and earnings growth outlook below MedTech peers, new innovations are critical to improve the MDT growth setup. Specifically, the HUGO surgical robotic system, renal denervation hypertension treatment, and new diabetes innovations could be important growth drivers ahead. But, today, it is difficult to gauge when and how these innovations will begin to drive improving MDT performance. In light of MDT's mid-single-digit revenue growth outlook and high-single-digit earnings growth outlook, the stock appears reasonably valued relative to companies similar revenue growth and profitability growth profiles, in our view.