Biggest American medical device companies in 2020 | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Many of the biggest American medical device companies have been in the news at some point this year due to their efforts in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic

Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and Stryker are among the worlds biggest US-based medical device firms (Credit: asharkyu/Shutterstock)

The world’s biggest healthcare companies and medical device manufacturers – many of which are American – have received more attention than ever in 2020 due to increased demand for ventilators, face masks, testing kits and, most recently, vaccines, as countries attempt to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

While a number of different indicators can be used to rank these firms, we’ve chosen to use market capitalisation – the market value of a company’s outstanding shares – as a way to determine who is currently leading the American medical devices secto...