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Merck & Co. (MRK)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$80.69 USD

80.69
6,811,264

+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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Merck Gets Priority Review for Keytruda Combo in Kidney Cancer

Merck's (MRK) sBLA looking for approval of Keytruda plus Pfizer's Inlyta for the first-line treatment of the most common type of kidney cancer gets FDA's priority review.

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Incyte (INCY) Q4 Earnings Miss Estimates, Revenues Beat

Incyte's (INCY) fourth-quarter earnings miss estimates but revenues beat the same on strong Jakafi sales.

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: ExxonMobil, Merck, Danaher, Novartis and Expedia

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: ExxonMobil, Merck, Danaher, Novartis and Expedia

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AstraZeneca's (AZN) Q4 Earnings Beat, New Drugs Drive Sales

AstraZeneca (AZN) beats earnings and sales estimates in the fourth quarter and provides encouraging outlook for 2019. Shares up.

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Top Research Reports for ExxonMobil, Merck & Danaher

Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including ExxonMobil (XOM), Merck (MRK) and Danaher (DHR).

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Aduro Initiates Dosing in Phase I Melanoma Study on ADU-S100

Aduro (ADRO) doses the first patient in a phase I study on ADU-S100 in combination with Yervoy for the treatment of relapsed and refractory melanoma. Shares rise.

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Bristol-Myers' Sprycel Gets European Nod for Label Expansion

Bristol-Myers' (BMY) oncology drug, Sprycel in combination with chemotherapy gets EC approval to treat pediatric patients with newly diagnosed Ph+ ALL.

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Seattle Genetics' Adcetris Gets EC Nod for Label Expansion

Seattle Genetics' (SGEN) partner, Takeda Pharmaceutical receives EC approval for Adcetris in combination with AVD to treat adults with previously untreated CD30+ stage IV cHL.

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Pfizer sBLA for Kidney Cancer Drug Combo Gets Priority Review

Pfizer (PFE)/Merck KGaA's label expansion application for Bavencio as a treatment for advanced kidney cancer in combination with Inlyta gets priority review in the United States. The decision is expected in June.

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Stock Market News For Feb 12, 2019

Markets closed mostly higher on Monday as fresh rounds of trade talks between the United States and China began.

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Merck's Keytruda Gets FDA Priority Review for Head/Neck Cancer

Merck's (MRK) supplemental biologics license application for Keytruda receives a priority review from the FDA for the first-line treatment of patients with recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancer.

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ImmunoGen (IMGN) Beats on Earnings & Sales in Q4, Shares Up

ImmunoGen (IMGN) reports narrower-than-expected loss in Q4 and beats revenue estimates.

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Incyte Down as FDA Extends Review Period of Jakafi for GVHD

The FDA extends the review period of Incyte's (INCY) sNDA for the label expansion of Jakafi for the treatment of acute GVHD.

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Seattle Genetics (SGEN) Q4 Loss Widens, Revenues Top Mark

Seattle Genetics (SGEN) incurs wider-than-expected loss in Q4 but rides high on revenue beat.

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Pharma Stock Roundup: Q4 Earnings at MRK, LLY, CHMP Nod for Several Drugs

Merck (MRK) and Lilly (LLY) report Q4 results. CHMP gives nod to several drugs.

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Dow 30 Stock Roundup: Disney Earnings Impress, Pfizer's Cancer Drug Gets CHMP Nod

The index endured a mixed week after trade war fears reemerged.

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Glaxo Inks Deal With Merck KGaA to Co-Develop Cancer Candidate

Glaxo (GSK) signs a co-development and commercialization agreement with Germany-based Merck KGaA for the latter's next-generation immunotherapy candidate, M7824.

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Winners & Losers from Trump's State of the Union Address

While pharma majors could face greater scrutiny on drug pricing, defense, infrastructure and energy are likely to emerge as big winners.

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Merck's Keytruda Clinches CHMP Nod for Difficult Lung Cancer

Merck (MRK) secures a positive verdict from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use to approve Keytruda's combo therapy for first-line treatment of a difficult lung cancer population.

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Stock Market News For Feb 4, 2019

Markets closed mostly in the green on Friday after the release of stellar economic data boosted investor sentiment.

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

Dividends are one of the best benefits to being a shareholder, but finding a great dividend stock is no easy task. Does Merck (MRK) have what it takes? Let's find out.

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Merck (MRK) Beats on Q4 Earnings & Sales as Keytruda Shines

Merck (MRK) beats estimates for earnings as well as sales in fourth-quarter 2018. Blockbuster cancer drug, Keytruda continues its robust performance on strong demand trends.

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Merck (MRK) Tops on Q4 Earnings & Sales, Stock Up

Merck (MRK) beats estimates for earnings as well as sales in fourth-quarter 2018. Stock is up in pre-market trading.

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Merck's Pneumococcal Vaccine Gets Breakthrough Therapy Status

Merck's (MRK) investigational pneumococcal vaccine V114 gets FDA's Breakthrough Therapy designation for prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease.

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Eli Lilly (LLY) Q4 Earnings Coming Up: What's in the Cards?

Eli Lilly and Company's (LLY) new drugs like Trulicity, Taltz and Jardiance are performing well. Let's see if these along with its older products lead the company to an earnings beat.