Medtronic (MDT) Stock: Dividend Timing, MiniMed IPO Watch, and What to Know Before the Next NYSE Session
NEW YORK, Dec. 27, 2025, 4:10 p.m. ET — Market Closed (Weekend) Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) heads into the weekend with investors balancing a quiet, year-end tape against several company-specific narratives that still matter for 2026: a freshly passed dividend record window, the planned separation of its diabetes business via the MiniMed IPO process, and continued focus on cardiovascular momentum that has helped drive the stock’s 2025 run. With U.S. markets shut until Monday’s open, the immediate question for shareholders isn’t what MDT did minute-to-minute on Saturday—because it didn’t trade—but what the stock’s latest positioning says about sentiment, and what