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Merck & Co. (MRK)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$80.03 USD

80.03
8,210,110

-0.66 (-0.82%)

Updated Aug 11, 2025 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $80.13 +0.10 (0.12%) 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 F Growth F Momentum D 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 28% (68 out of 244)

Industry: Large Cap Pharmaceuticals

Zacks News

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

In the latest trading session, Merck (MRK) closed at $86.46, marking a +0.78% move from the previous day.

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AstraZeneca's (AZN) Enhertu sBLA Receives FDA Priority Tag

FDA grants priority review to AstraZeneca (AZN) and Daiichi Sankyo's sBLA seeking approval of Enhertu for previously treated HER2-mutant metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

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Exelixis (EXEL) Outperforms Industry YTD: What Lies Ahead?

Exelixis (EXEL) gains 25% in the year so far on strong performance of Cabometyx and encouraging pipeline progress.

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Merck's (MRK) Pneumococcal Jab Gets FDA's Breakthrough Tag

The FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to Merck's (MRK) vaccine candidate, V116, for preventing invasive pneumococcal disease and pneumococcal pneumonia in adults.

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Nektar (NKTR) Ends Bempeg Plus Opdivo Program on Study Failures

Nektar's (NKTR) lead clinical program, bempeg plus Bristol-Myers' Opdivo, fails in registrational cancer studies. Nektar and Bristol-Myers decide to discontinue all bempeg plus Opdivo development programs.

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J&J (JNJ) to Set the Tone for Pharma Sector's Q1 Earnings

J&J's (JNJ) Pharma segment is expected to have performed above the market. It remains to be seen if sales improved in the Medical Devices segment in the first quarter.

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Seagen (SGEN) Gets Nod From EU for Bladder Cancer Drug, Padcev

The European Commission approves Seagen's (SGEN) Padcev as a monotherapy for treating adult patients with locally advanced/metastatic urothelial cancer.

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Anthem (ANTM) to Post Q1 Earnings: What's in the Offing?

Anthem's (ANTM) first-quarter results are likely to benefit from the growing premiums and an uptick in Medicare and Medicaid membership, partly offset by higher expenses.

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Bristol Myers' (BMY) Opdivo Data Positive for Neoadjuvant NSCLC

Bristol Myers (BMY) posts favorable data from a late-stage study that shows neoadjuvant Opdivo with chemotherapy to significantly better the event-free survival rate in patients with resectable NSCLC.

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Gilead (GILD) Magrolimab Studies' Partial Clinical Hold Removed

Gilead (GILD) studies evaluating its investigational agent magrolimab in combination with Vidaza are no longer under FDAs partial clinical hold.

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Merck (MRK) Stock Moves -1.2%: What You Should Know

Merck (MRK) closed the most recent trading day at $86.63, moving -1.2% from the previous trading session.

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Iovance (IOVA) Stock Rallies 33% in a Month: Here's Why

Iovance (IOVA) to complete the FDA filing for its lead candidate in melanoma by August. It will start a clinical study for its first TALEN-edited TIL therapy for two advanced cancer indications later this year.

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Pharma Stock Roundup: PFE to Buy RSV Drugmaker, FDA Updates for NVS, MRK and RHHBY

Pfizer (PFE) announces plans to acquire ReViral for up to $525 million. Merck (MRK), Novartis (NVS) and Roche (RHHBY) provide FDA updates.

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights Merck, CVS Health, American Tower, QUALCOMM and Analog Devices

Merck, CVS Health, American Tower, QUALCOMM and Analog Devices are part of top Analyst article.

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Top Analyst Reports for Merck, CVS Health & American Tower

Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK), CVS Health Corporation (CVS), and American Tower Corporation (AMT).

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Iovance (IOVA) to Seek FDA Nod for Melanoma Therapy in August

Iovance (IOVA) expects to complete FDA filing for lifileucel in metastatic melanoma by August 2022. It also intends to start a phase III combo study with lifileucel in melanoma in late 2022.

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

    Merck (MRK) closed the most recent trading day at $83.72, moving +0.28% from the previous trading session.

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    Bristol Myers (BMY) Gets EC Nod for Opdivo's Label Expansion

    Bristol Myers (BMY) receives EC approval for label expansion of Opdivo for ESCC and urothelial carcinoma.

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    Clovis (CLVS) Up 24% on Upbeat Data From Ovarian Cancer Study

    Clovis Oncology's (CLVS) stock price rises after it reports favorable data from a late-stage study on Rubraca as the first-line maintenance treatment of ovarian cancer.

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    Can Merck (MRK) Keep the Earnings Surprise Streak Alive?

    Merck (MRK) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

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    Merck's (MRK) Pneumococcal Vaccine sBLA Faces FDA Delay

    Merck's (MRK) Vaxneuvance vaccine includes pneumococcal serotypes 22F and 33F, which are not included in the currently licensed 13-valent conjugate vaccines.

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    Corcept (CORT) Posts OS Data from Phase II Ovarian Cancer Study

    Corcept (CORT) posts overall survival data from a phase II study evaluating relacorilant plus nab-paclitaxel for treating recurrent platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.

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    Bristol Myers (BMY) Application for Opdivo With Chemo Validated

    Bristol Myers (BMY) type II variation application for Opdivo in combination with chemotherapy for the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer gets EMA validation.

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