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Merck & Co. (MRK)

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$79.07 USD

79.07
1,342,159

-0.37 (-0.47%)

Updated Aug 7, 2025 10:48 AM 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 D 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% (87 out of 246)

Industry: Large Cap Pharmaceuticals

Zacks News

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Zacks.com featured highlights include Merck, Haemonetics, LKQ, Eastman Chemical and Honeywell International

Zacks.com featured highlights include Merck, Haemonetics, LKQ, Eastman Chemical and Honeywell International

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    Zacks.com featured highlights include Merck, Haemonetics, LKQ, Eastman Chemical and Honeywell International

    Zacks.com featured highlights include Merck, Haemonetics, LKQ, Eastman Chemical and Honeywell International

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      Axovant Sciences (AXON) Stock Crashed Over 70%: Here's Why

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        Top Stocks with Big Potential Catch-Up Moves

        Given the recent run-up in the market, here's a screen I've been using recently. Highlighted stocks include MRK, HAE, LKQ, EMN and HON.

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          Roche (RHHBY) Gets Approval for Label Expansion of Tecentriq

          Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) announced a label expansion of immunotherapy drug Tecentriq for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in Europe.

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            Merck's Keytruda Gets FDA Nod for Advanced Gastric Cancer

            Merck's (MRK) Keytruda received FDA approval for advanced gastric cancer, making it the tenth new indication approved for Keytruda.

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              Bristol-Myers (BMY) Opdivo Gets Approval for Liver Cancer

              Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) announced that the FDA has approved immuno-oncology drug Opdivo for liver cancer.

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                Gilead's (GILD) Epclusa Receives Label Expansion in Canada

                Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) announced that Health Canada has approved a label update of hepatitis C virus drug, Epclusa.

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                  Pfizer-Merck KGaA Skin Cancer Drug Bavencio Gets EU Approval

                  Pfizer and German partner Merck KGaA's Bavencio secures an EU approval for metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma. The company also expects to make the drug commercially available within a month.

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                    Cancer Space Update: Mixed Week for Pfizer, Roche Falters

                    Roche again disappointed this week with two studies on Tecentriq being put on partial hold while Pfizer's Bavencio received approval in Europe. TESARO's Zejula moved a step closer to approval.

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                      Pfizer Sues J&J, Accuses it of Preventing Inflectra Uptake

                      Pfizer (PFE) filed a lawsuit in a U.S. district court alleging that J&J is resorting to anticompetitive practices to prevent uptake of Inflectra.

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                        Roche (RHHBY) Announces Positive Data on Leukemia Drug

                        Roche Holdings AG (RHHBY) announced positive results from the phase III study, MURANO on leukemia drug Venclexta.

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                          Roche's (RHHBY) Tecentriq Studies Put on Partial Hold by FDA

                          Roche Holdings AG (RHHBY) announced that the FDA has put a partial clinical hold on a phase Ib and phase I/II b trials evaluating immunotherapy drug Tecentriq.

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                            Bristol-Myers (BMY) Collaborates With Halozyme for ENHANZE

                            Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) enters into a collaboration and license agreement with Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (HALO).

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                              Biosimilar 2017 Progress Report: Stocks in Focus

                              The biosimilar space remains in the spotlight as a number of regulatory decisions are pending.

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                                Nektar (NKTR) Starts PROPEL Combo Study for Cancer Candidate

                                Nektar (NKTR) initiates phase I/II combo study on lead candidate NKTR-214 along with Tecentriq and Keytruda. The trial complements Nektar's ongoing PIVOT research clubbed with Opdivo.

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                                  AstraZeneca's Lung Cancer Study Data Promising, Shares Spike

                                  AstraZeneca, (AZN) releases data from a late-stage study on Imfinzi which showed that the new cancer drug led to superior progression-free survival to standard of care in lung cancer patients.

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                                    Bristol-Myers' Opdivo Study Meets Early Success, Stock Up

                                    Bristol-Myers' (BMY) phase III study evaluating Opdivo plus Yervoy successfully met its co-primary endpoints and thus was stopped earlier than expected.

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                                      Celgene (CELG) Fusion Program Studies Put on Hold by FDA

                                      Celgene Corporation (CELG) announced that the FDA put a hold on several trials in the FUSION program evaluating Imfinzi, an anti-PD-L1 antibody, in combination with immunomodulatory and chemotherapy agents in blood cancers.

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                                        Bristol-Myers' (BMY) Opdivo's Myeloma Studies Put on Hold

                                        Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) announced that the FDA put a partial clinical hold on three clinical trials, investigating Opdivo-based combinations in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

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                                          Merck (MRK) Opts for Buying German Immuno-Oncology Biotech

                                          Merck (MRK) to acquire Germany-based Rigontec, a leader in retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I), a novel immuno-oncology treatment approach targeting therapeutics.

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                                            Merck's (MRK) Keytruda Gets EU Approval for Bladder Cancer

                                            Merck's (MRK) Keytruda received approval in the EU for the first and second line treatment of certain patients with advanced bladder cancer.

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                                              Incyte (INCY) Reports Positive Data on Epacadostat/Keytruda

                                              Incyte Corporation (INCY) announced new and updated data from the ongoing phase I/II ECHO-202 trial on pipeline candidate epacadostat with Keytruda.

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                                                The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Merck, Caterpillar, Intel, Analog Devices and Best Buy

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                                                  Top Stock Reports for Merck, Caterpillar & Intel

                                                  Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Merck (MRK), Caterpillar (CAT), and Intel (INTC).