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Merck & Co. (MRK)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$80.69 USD

80.69
6,882,688

+0.32 (0.40%)

Updated Aug 8, 2025 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $80.95 +0.26 (0.32%) 7:58 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy23.75%
2Buy17.82%
3Hold9.58%
4Sell5.28%
5Strong Sell2.61%
S&P50011.30%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

  • Value Score A
  • Growth Score A
  • Momentum Score A
  • VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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A Value C Growth F Momentum B VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 35% (85 out of 244)

Industry: Large Cap Pharmaceuticals

Zacks News

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Lilly Announces Tradjenta Cardiovascular Outcome Study Data

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Merck (MRK) to Buy Private Biotech Tilos for Up to $773M

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Merck (MRK) Gains But Lags Market: What You Should Know

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AstraZeneca's Calquence Meets Endpoint in 2nd CLL Study

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Why Merck (MRK) is a Great Dividend Stock Right Now

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Seattle Genetics, Astellas' Cancer Candidate Attains 44% ORR

Seattle Genetics (SGEN) and Astellas post favorable data from the first cohort of a phase II study on enfortumab vedotin for treating advanced/metastatic urothelial cancer. Shares up as the candidate achieves 44% ORR.

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Aduro Stock Crashes After ASCO Updates on Cancer Candidate

Aduro (ADRO) presents updated data from an ongoing phase Ib study evaluating its STING agonist, ADU-S100 in combination with Novartis' checkpoint inhibitor.

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Merck's Antibiotic Zerbaxa Gets FDA Nod for New Indication

Merck (MRK) gets FDA approval for antibacterial medicine, Zerbaxa for hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP)

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Company News For Jun 4, 2019

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Bristol-Myers (BMY) Presents Multiple Data on Opdivo at ASCO

Bristol-Myers (BMY) announces data from multiple studies on immuno-oncology drug, Opdivo, at ASCO.

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Merck (MRK) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know

In the latest trading session, Merck (MRK) closed at $80.26, marking a +1.33% move from the previous day.

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Novartis (NVS) Announces Various Data Presentations at ASCO

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AstraZeneca's Imfinzi Shows Long-Term Benefits in Lung Cancer

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Roche Presents Positive Data on Xolair & Updates From ASCO

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Merck's Keytruda Improves 5-Year Survival in Lung Cancer

Merck (MRK) presents longest follow-up data for Keytruda in advance lung cancer at ASCO 2019. The five-year overall survival rates in the Keytruda arm are better than historical rates