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Merck & Co. (MRK)

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-0.19 (-0.24%)

Updated Aug 6, 2025 09:54 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 37% (90 out of 246)

Industry: Large Cap Pharmaceuticals

Zacks News

Zacks Equity Research

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Merck, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Allergan, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Merck, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Allergan, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson

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    The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Merck, PNC Financial, Express Scripts, VeriSign and Martin Marietta

    The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Merck, PNC Financial, Express Scripts, VeriSign and Martin Marietta

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      What's Driving Lilly's (LLY) Shares after 2016 Decline?

      After a rather difficult 2016, share price of pharma giant, Eli Lilly & Company (LLY) has picked up in 2017.

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        Incyte's (INCY) Beats on Q4 Earnings, Provides 2017 Outlook

        Incyte Corporation (INCY) reported fourth-quarter earnings of 15 cents beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 14 cents.

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          Dow 30 Stock Roundup: Coca-Cola, Disney, Visa Beat on Earnings

          The Dow endured another volatile week as it bobbed and weaved around record highs.

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            Agilent (A) Announces Expanded Use of Diagnostic Assay (revised)

            Agilent Technologies (A) recently announced the expanded use of its diagnostic assay, Dako PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx.

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              The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Apple, Exxon Mobil, Merck, Pfizer and Intel

              The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Apple, Exxon Mobil, Merck, Pfizer and Intel

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                Merck???s Keytruda Gets Priority Review for Bladder Cancer

                Merck & Co., Inc.???s (MRK) two supplemental Biologics License Applications (sBLA) for its anti-PD-1 therapy, Keytruda, have been accepted under priority review by the FDA.

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                  Dow 30 Stock Roundup: Apple, Intel, Exxon Beat; Merck, Pfizer, Chevron Miss on Revenues

                  The Dow suffered losses over the week as optimism over Trump's election gave way to apprehension over his actions as President.

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                    Roche (RHHBY) Beats on Earnings in 2016, Misses on Sales

                    Roche beat on earnings but missed on sales in 2016 due to decline in sales of Lucentis, Pegasys, Avastin and Tarceva.

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                      Agilent (A) Announces Expanded Use of Diagnostic Assay

                      Agilent Technologies (A) recently announced the expanded use of its diagnostic assay, Dako PD-L1 IHC 28-8 22C3 pharmDx. This marks the company's effort to expand in the growing companion diagnostics market.

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                        Merck (MRK) Tops Q4 Earnings, Misses Sales Estimates

                        Merck surpassed fourth-quarter 2016 earnings expectations

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                          Merck Keytruda Gets EU Approval for First-Line Lung Cancer

                          Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) announced that its anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda has been approved by the European Commission for the first-line treatment of adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

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                            Pfizer (PFE) Q4 Earnings Lag, Sales Top; '17 Sales View Soft

                            Pfizer, Inc. (PFE) missed earnings estimates in the fourth quarter.

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                              Key Takeaways from AbbVie's Q4 Call: Humira and the Pipeline

                              2017 will be a year of significant R&D investment for AbbVie (ABBV) as well as several late-stage readouts which will give an insight into the company's long term growth prospects.

                                Zacks Equity Research

                                Will Eli Lilly's (LLY) Earnings Surpass Estimates in Q4?

                                We expect Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) to beat expectations when it reports fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 earnings results on Jan 31, before market opens.

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                                  What Lies in Store for Pfizer (PFE) this Earnings Season?

                                  Pfizer Inc. (PFE) will be reporting fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 earnings results on Jan 31, before market open.

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                                    Theravance's Infection Drug Vibativ Positive in TOUR Study

                                    Theravance Biopharma, Inc. (TBPH) recently released positive interim data from the ongoing TOURstudy evaluating how Vibativ (telavancin) is used to treat patients with bacteremia or infective endocarditis (IE).

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                                      J&J (JNJ) Q4 Earnings Top; Seeks Options for Diabetes Unit

                                      Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) reported a mixed quarter with earnings beating expectations while sales missing the same.

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                                        Bristol-Myers Settles Litigation with Merck for Keytruda

                                        Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) along with partner Ono Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd. announced that both the companies have signed a global patent license agreement with Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK) to settle all litigation related to Keytruda.

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                                          Prima Biomed Initiates Randomized Study for Breast Cancer

                                          Prima (PBMD) dosed the first patient in the enlarged randomized phase of the phase IIb study -- AIPAC -- on IMP321 for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.

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                                            Bristol-Myers to Not Seek Accelerated Approval for Opdivo+Yervoy

                                            Bristol-Myers (BMY) won't seek an accelerated approval in the U.S. for the combination of its two immuno-oncology treatments Opdivo plus Yervoy for the first-line lung cancer.

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                                              Celgene (CELG) Q4 Earnings: Will the Stock Pull a Surprise?

                                              Celgene Corporation (CELG), which is set to report fourth-quarter 2016 results on Jan 26, reported a positive earnings surprise of 6.11% last quarter.

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                                                BioLineRx (BLRX) Starts Cancer Study on BL-8040+Keytruda

                                                BioLineRx (BLRX) announced the initiation of a second phase IIa study on BL-8040 in combination with Keytruda for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

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                                                  Bristol-Myers (BMY) Q4 Earnings: Will the Stock Disappoint?

                                                  Bristol-Myers (BMY) is set to report fourth-quarter 2016 results on Jan 26. It reported a positive earnings surprise of 18.46% in the last quarter.