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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

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Pfizer's (PFE) Kidney Cancer Drug Combo Gets EMA's Validation

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Roche's (RHHBY) Tecentriq Gets EC Nod for First-Line NSCLC

Roche (RHHBY) obtains approval for the label expansion of Tecentriq in Europe. The company also submits its sNDA for leukemia drug, Venclexta.

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Roche's (RHHBY) sNDA for Flu Candidate Accepted by the FDA

The FDA accepts Roche's (RHHBY) sNDA for Xofluza to treat influenza in people at high risk of complications.

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Merck Gets CHMP Nod for Six-Week Dosing Option of Keytruda

Merck (MRK) gets CHMP recommendation for a six-week dosing schedule of Keytruda across all current monotherapy indications.

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Immunogen Ovarian Cancer Drug Fails in Phase III, Stock Sinks

Immunogen's (IMGN) ovarian cancer candidate, mirvetuximab soravtansine fails to meet primary endpoint in a phase III monotherapy study. Shares of the company decline almost 47%.

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Endo (ENDP) Q4 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates, Shares Up

Endo's (ENDP) earnings and revenues top expectations in the fourth quarter.

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Esperion (ESPR) Reports Wider-Than-Expected Loss in Q4

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Perrigo (PRGO) Q4 Earnings Miss, Sales Beat, Stock Down

Perrigo (PRGO) reports wider loss in fourth-quarter 2018. However, sales were marginally higher. Challenges in the Rx segment continues to hurt the top line.

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AstraZeneca/Merck's Lynparza Meets Endpoint in POLO Study

AstraZeneca (AZN) and Merck's Lynparza significantly delays disease progression in a late-stage study (POLO) evaluating it as first-line maintenance treatment in pancreatic cancer.

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Merck to Buy Immunotherapy Developer Immune Design for $300M

Merck (MRK) plans to acquire Immune Design for $300 million in cash. Merck will pay $5.85 in cash for each share of Immune Design.

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What's in the Cards for Perrigo (PRGO) This Earnings Season?

Perrigo (PRGO) is focused on Consumer Healthcare Americas segment. Let's see if it aids the company's results in the soon-to-be reported quarter.

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Pharma Stock Roundup: MRK Buys IMDZ, FDA Grants Priority Review to Some Candidates

Merck (MRK) to buy Immune Design for $300 million. FDA grants priority review to regulatory applications filed by Merck, Roche (RHHBY) and AbbVie (ABBV).

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Merck Gets Priority Review for Keytruda in Third-Line SCLC

Merck's (MRK) sBLA looking for approval of Keytruda monotherapy for the third-line treatment of small cell lung cancer, a difficult-to-treat cancer, gets FDA's priority review.

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Merck's Keytruda Fails to Meet Endpoint in Liver Cancer Study

Merck's (MRK) Keytruda fails a phase III study in second-line advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It gets FDA approval for the adjuvant treatment of patients with high-risk stage III melanoma.

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